David Kastrup wrote: Because it is a visual feature that you want to see or not.
So are "Syntax Highlighting", "Active Region Highlighting" and "Paren Match Highlighting". Then perhaps we should rename the menu. It definitely does not "hide" things, since a scrollbar or toolbar or speedbar or similar does not get hidden, but removed or switched off. After you remove them, you can not see them anymore, which people may think of as "hidden", even though this is technically speaking not the way things are implemented. On the other hand, you definitely can still see the cursor, whether it blinks or not. Nitpickingly correct would be: Show/ Do Not Show, but "Hidden" is the name most other applications seem to use, even though they too just "remove" stuff instead of "hiding" it. Personally, if settings render Emacs unusable (like you claim) for some audience, then these settings must be changeable from the command line with the man page saying so. Having to study a man page before even being able to casually and comfortably try out an application does usually not encourage people to try out that application. That is the only safe way people will have a chance to arrive at a working Emacs without suffering a heart attack or epilepsy or blindness or whatever beforehand. I said that it produced discomfort. I did not claim that it was a health hazard. This is not something that can easily be "solved", we can at best make a poll. A poll among users would be most relevant, and if we don't have that, a poll on developers. This is unbelievable. We are talking about adding an option to a menu, not about changing a default. Sincerely, Luc. _______________________________________________ Emacs-devel mailing list Emacs-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel
