bug#21734: 25.0.50; cursor-in-non-selected-windows set to nil in gnus-article-mode for no apparent reason

[Reiner Steib]

On Thu, Oct 22 2015, Oleh Krehel wrote:

> See commit e4a89ccf738861d7b9c4f611185aa0f204c9c208 from 2006 with:
>
> +  (setq cursor-in-non-selected-windows nil)
>
> And the following Changelog entry:
>
> 2006-04-12  Reiner Steib  <Reiner.Steib@gmx.de>
>
>       * gnus-art.el (gnus-article-mode):
>       Set cursor-in-non-selected-windows to nil.
>
> and no further explanation. If there are no objections, I'd like to
> revert this change, since it's useful to see a hollow cursor in case the
> buffer with the article isn't selected, and the hollow cursor is the
> default in all modes except this one.

Miles Bader suggested this change, I found it useful and Lars approved
it: See http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/62017 ...

| From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
| Subject: Re: cursor-in-non-selected-windows
| Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general
| Date: 2006-04-12 06:04:52 GMT
| 
| Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane <at> imap.cc> writes:
| 
| > (add-hook 'gnus-article-mode-hook
| >       (lambda ()
| >         (setq cursor-in-non-selected-windows nil)))
| 
| I think this should be the default.  Any objections?

Maybe this choice wasn't too bad since no one complained during the
last 9 years?

> If a particular user wants the current setting, it can be set in
> `gnus-article-mode-hook'. It's better than having a non-standard value
> in one particular mode for all users.

I had it in my init file before this change.

Bye, Reiner.