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Re: change cursor type when idle
From: |
Dan Nicolaescu |
Subject: |
Re: change cursor type when idle |
Date: |
Tue, 12 Feb 2008 10:07:57 -0800 |
"Juanma Barranquero" <address@hidden> writes:
> On Feb 12, 2008 5:43 PM, Dan Nicolaescu <address@hidden> wrote:
> > I
> > was referring to exactly one such color: `cua-read-only-cursor-color'.
> > It's easy enough to know that the buffer is read only, you can't type in
> > it. Does changing the cursor color add any extra useful visual clue?
>
> Yes, it does for me. I often have two almost identical buffers open,
> and switch from one to the other. But I want one of them to be
> read-only, and the visual clue is helpful (not to prevent trying to
> write into the read-only one, but to speed switching among them). I
> have in fact this in my .emacs:
Sorry, but IMHO such a feature (cua-read-only-cursor-color, or the
similar one in Drew's package) does not seem useful for the majority of
emacs users. But given that it's already in cua-mode, we can't do much
about it.
> (setq cua-normal-cursor-color '(box . "white")
> cua-overwrite-cursor-color '(hollow . "red")
^^^^^^^^^^^
IMHO this is useful, and it should be in generic code.
- RE: change cursor type when idle, Drew Adams, 2008/02/11
- Re: change cursor type when idle, Richard Stallman, 2008/02/11
- Re: change cursor type when idle, Dan Nicolaescu, 2008/02/12
- Re: change cursor type when idle, Juanma Barranquero, 2008/02/12
- Re: change cursor type when idle, Dan Nicolaescu, 2008/02/12
- Re: change cursor type when idle, Juanma Barranquero, 2008/02/12
- Re: change cursor type when idle, Dan Nicolaescu, 2008/02/12
- Re: change cursor type when idle, Juanma Barranquero, 2008/02/12
- Re: change cursor type when idle, Dan Nicolaescu, 2008/02/12
- Re: change cursor type when idle, Juanma Barranquero, 2008/02/12
- Re: change cursor type when idle,
Dan Nicolaescu <=
- Re: change cursor type when idle, Juanma Barranquero, 2008/02/12
- RE: change cursor type when idle, Drew Adams, 2008/02/12
- Re: change cursor type when idle, Juri Linkov, 2008/02/12
- Re: change cursor type when idle, Juri Linkov, 2008/02/12
- Re: change cursor type when idle, Dan Nicolaescu, 2008/02/12
- Re: change cursor type when idle, Juanma Barranquero, 2008/02/12
- RE: change cursor type when idle, Drew Adams, 2008/02/12
- Re: change cursor type when idle, Juanma Barranquero, 2008/02/12
- Re: change cursor type when idle, Dan Nicolaescu, 2008/02/12
- Re: change cursor type when idle, Juanma Barranquero, 2008/02/12