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From: sbm@arthur (Steven B. Munson)
Newsgroups: net.micro.mac
Subject: Re: Cursor shapes
Message-ID: <1043@arthur>
Date: Tue, 8-Oct-85 16:31:53 EDT
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Posted: Tue Oct  8 16:31:53 1985
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Organization: Department of Computer Science, Purdue University
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In article <1167@sphinx.UChicago.UUCP>,
beth@sphinx.UChicago.UUCP (Beth Christy) writes:
> Of course, it might be a bit distracting if the pointer flashed every
> time you hit Shift in a text editor....

     That is why text editors should always obscure the cursor (using
ObscureCursor) when the user is typing, because the cursor is in the way
when it is not being used anyway.  If this is done, as it is in MacWrite,
there is no problem with the cursor changing shape.

					Steve Munson
					sbm@Purdue.EDU
					sbm@Purdue.CSNET