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| author | Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> | 2014-04-13 10:49:23 +0300 |
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| committer | Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> | 2014-04-13 10:49:23 +0300 |
| commit | 834511891e138f284c6e11a2cab34d06670e7052 (patch) | |
| tree | 37dd47ceb1d24d0cd8253bfee292050bb964490f /lisp/frame.el | |
| parent | ff252be0a8c1955801061d071d6c537ab46e53d8 (diff) | |
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Improve documentation of blink-cursor-mode and its customization variables.
lisp/frame.el (blink-cursor-blinks, blink-cursor-blinks-done): Doc fixes.
(blink-cursor-mode): Mention customization variables and the
effect of 'blink-cursor-blinks'.
doc/emacs/display.texi (Cursor Display): Explain better how to customize
'blink-cursor-blinks'.
Diffstat (limited to 'lisp/frame.el')
| -rw-r--r-- | lisp/frame.el | 10 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/lisp/frame.el b/lisp/frame.el index 7b0a0a80082..f081df788ec 100644 --- a/lisp/frame.el +++ b/lisp/frame.el @@ -1722,14 +1722,14 @@ left untouched. FRAME nil or omitted means use the selected frame." :group 'cursor) (defcustom blink-cursor-blinks 10 - "How many times to blink before using a solid cursor on NS and X. + "How many times to blink before using a solid cursor on NS, X, and MS-Windows. Use 0 or negative value to blink forever." :version "24.4" :type 'integer :group 'cursor) (defvar blink-cursor-blinks-done 1 - "Number of blinks done since we started blinking on NS and X") + "Number of blinks done since we started blinking on NS, X, and MS-Windows.") (defvar blink-cursor-idle-timer nil "Timer started after `blink-cursor-delay' seconds of Emacs idle time. @@ -1807,6 +1807,12 @@ With a prefix argument ARG, enable Blink Cursor mode if ARG is positive, and disable it otherwise. If called from Lisp, enable the mode if ARG is omitted or nil. +If the value of `blink-cursor-blinks' is positive (10 by default), +the cursor stops blinking after that number of blinks, if Emacs +gets no input during that time. + +See also `blink-cursor-interval' and `blink-cursor-delay'. + This command is effective only on graphical frames. On text-only terminals, cursor blinking is controlled by the terminal." :init-value (not (or noninteractive |