On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 12:30:38PM -0700, Frederik Eaton <[email protected]>
wrote:
> > > The application was not requesting for the cursor to blink.
> >
> > The app in question is emacs, and we already know that emacs does
> > it. Which app do you refer to, if not emacs?
>
> Emacs does not request for Urxvt to blink the cursor.
Don't argue semantics here - emacs is asking for aery visible cursor, and
urxvt and basically all other temrinals that support this implement this by
blinking, which (as hopefully nobody disagrees) makes the cursor very
visible.
> Urxvt to make it "very visible". I requested for Urxvt to make it "not
> blink". Given those two requests, I think the correct action is
> something other than "make it blink".
You think wrong, because you assume that urxvt can somehow magically read
your thoughts and somehow "know" that your emacs configuration should be
ignored, while your resources shouldn't. urxvt simply follows both, it
makes the cursor not blink, unless emacs requests it.
Urxvt cannot possibly distinguish between "user can't configure emacs to
his or her likings" and "user wants cursor blinking and selects the
appropriate configuration for his/her editor".
> Even if there were a specific terminfo capability to make the cursor
> blink, I would expect to be able to turn it off on my terminal,
And you can, in multiple ways as you already found out, so I assume all is
well?
> (titeInhibit), but until it is configurable with rxvt-unicode, I'll
> have to be using a custom terminfo (that also solves the blinking
> problem).
It seems you think that terminfo somehow is not "configuration", but
clearly it is. In fact, that config file comes with urxvt.
> P.S.: I have this 'vi' for some reason, perhaps it was installed with
> the Arch base system:
>
> Description : The original ex/vi text editor
And you checked it also uses cvvis? That would be interesting information.
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