RFC: Disabling blinking cursor by default

Felix Miata mrmazda at ij.net
Tue Feb 3 18:02:27 UTC 2009


On 2009/02/03 13:44 (GMT+0200) Panu Matilainen composed:

> Blinking things tend to draw attention, and in the case of Blinky the 
> Cursor it's drawing your attention to the fact that there is nothing at 
> all to attend to.

No, it's drawing attention to:

1-point of focus
2-state ready to accept keyboard input, as opposed to lit up, but otherwise
useless

The blink for the reasons above is a tradition that dates back at least 45
years, probably a lot longer.
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