Re: [kzeitler@lucent.com: Re: Crash with mouse-avoidance-mode]

[Nick Roberts <nickrob@snap.net.nz>]

Richard Stallman writes:
 > Would someone please investigate this and DTRT?
 > 
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 > Subject: Re: Crash with mouse-avoidance-mode
 > From: Klaus Zeitler <kzeitler@lucent.com>
 > Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2006 11:49:29 +0200
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 > >>>>> "Richard" == Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:
 >     Richard> 
 >     Richard> Can you tell us a precise recipe for reproducing this?
 > 
 > Nearly precise :-).
 > 
 > 1. emacs -Q
 > 2. (setq mouse-avoidance-animation-delay 0.1)
 > 3. M-x mouse-avoidance-mode proteus
 > 4. Move cursor carefully/slowly close to mouse pointer so that avoidance-mode
 >    will try to move the pointer away. I need only about 3 or 4 tries till the
 >    animation goes haywire and the mouse pointer starts jumping around

I don't know about the haywire bit, maybe it's meant to do that, but the
crash was related to sit-for which Chong has already fixed.


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