Re: drawing cursor with special function

[James Henstridge <james daa com au>]

On Wed, 6 Dec 2000, Pavel Machek wrote:

> Hi!
> 
> What about this patch: it makes gtk use special function for drawing
> cursor line, therefore gdk backend has chance to do something special
> [like make the line blinking, or move hw cursor in case of
> gdk/cursed]. What do you think about it? Could something similar go to
> cvs?
> 								Pavel

One objection to this is using the term cursor in the function names.  On
most GUI systems, cursor usually refers to the mouse cursor
(eg. GdkCursor, etc).  Other names used for what you are talking about are
caret (I think that was the term) or mark.

James.