Re: For 1.5.10: cursor patch

[Thomas Dickey <dickey@xxxxxxx>]

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On Mon, 28 Mar 2005, Brendan Cully wrote:

> On Tuesday, 29 March 2005 at 04:05, Sébastien Hinderer wrote:
> > Dear mutt developers,
> >
> > The included patch puts the cursor at the beginning of the selected line
> > in mutt menus, even when the arrow_cursor variable is unset, making it
> > easier for blind persons to follow these menus.
> ...
> > In mutt, when the arrow_cursor variable is unset, the cursor is put at
> > the end of menu lines for the moment. Consequently, the end of the line
> > is displayed on the braille display, whereas the interesting information
> > is generally located at the beginning of the line.
>
> This patch seems completely reasonable to me. I suppose there was a
> reason why the cursor was put at the end, but I don't know what it
> was (maybe to make it less distracting?), and it isn't consistent
> with arrow_cursor anyway.

Less distracting probably - putting a block cursor on top of text that
has to be read makes it generally less visible.  (Or does this patch
ensure that the cursor is for example on a blank just to the left of
the text?)

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