Re: [Emacs-diffs] trunk r113431: Stop cursor blink after blink-cursor-blinks (10), stop timers when not blinking.

[Stefan Monnier]

>> Why does it matter?  Such global compatibility details should presumably
>> be handled elsewhere by simply not enabling the blink-cursor timers
>> under ttys if it doesn't work (tho I do know it can be made to work in
>> some cases).
> blink-cursor-mode is not enabled by default on ttys.

Exactly my point: you don't need to "disable" your code under ttys,
since the code is not run anyway in that case.

> Also, there is really no concept of focus-out or focus-in in a tty
> session, we can't know when we have or loose focus.

I don't think we really need focus-in/focus-out for the feature to be
useful: you can just blink N times every time Emacs becomes idle and
then stop blinking.


        Stefan