Re: bad UI defaults

[Richard Stallman]

    Here is a customization for cursor-blink-alist based on alist

The cursor-type widget does a good job for one part of the problem.
However, the alist level of the interface is not at all obvious.
All the user sees is [INS].

Can you think of some way to make that clearer?

    An alternative is to create another simpler variable:

    (defcustom cursor-off-type t
      "Cursor to show when the cursor is in the off state.
    The possible values are:
      t: Use the value specified by 'cursor-blink-alist'.
      ..."
      :type 'cursor-type)

That may be the simplest solution.