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The cursor blink rate in the editor is quite fast, much too hectic for my tastes. It is almost twice as fast as the cursor blink rate in text boxes in dialogs and such (e.g. "New Name" field in "Rename" dialog, or when pressing F2 on a file in the Files view). Under Windows, neither of those two blink rates is taken from the system settings (Control Panel -> Keyboard -> Speed -> Cursor blink rate), which I think NetBeans ought to do if feasable from Java. I found no way to adjust either of theses blink rates in the NetBeans options. I think the editor's cursor blink rate used to be adjustable in the advanced expert options under NetBeans 5.x, but it seems to be gone. I also couldn't find anything on this topic in the online help.
Well, yes there used to be an option for adjusting the cursor blinking rate, but since virtually nobody was using it we removed it as part of the ongoing effort for removing the advanced options altogether. You are right that the editor cursor blinking is faster than eg in the rename dialog. IIRC the rate is 300ms, but that's just a number and we can surely slow it down.
I do wonder how you're able measure how many people are using a feature. Googling around shows there are a couple of other people who like to adjust the cursor blink rate in NetBeans. But as I said, the best would be to use the system default where available, that's what it's for. Meanwhile, I found a workaround by inserting <property class="java.lang.Integer" name="caret-blink-rate" value="[my preferred blink rate]"/> in the properties.xml files of all mime types, but that's not exactly pretty.
For a plugin, see http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=nbdev&msgNo=39586. BTW, I think we need a way to have several another properties as a easy way, for example, the user.name property and so on, which was removed too from Advanced Option. IMHO, Advanced Options don't need to be removed, or we will need a Advanced tab for Miscellaneous category soon, to make this kind of property available. Regards.
Using the Swing's default blink rate unless specified otherwise. changeset aa54972b8bdd in main details: http://hg.netbeans.org/main?cmd=changeset;node=aa54972b8bdd
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