From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: invisible mouse pointer? Date: Fri, 03 Jul 2009 22:10:47 +0300 Message-ID: <8363e937m0.fsf@gnu.org> References: <001701c9556c$9e613750$c2b22382@us.oracle.com> <4A4DF06F.8050701@swipnet.se> <83eisx3hlv.fsf@gnu.org> <4A4E2E73.3020706@swipnet.se> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1246648265 8818 80.91.229.12 (3 Jul 2009 19:11:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 3 Jul 2009 19:11:05 +0000 (UTC) Cc: fitzsim@fitzsim.org, drew.adams@oracle.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Jan_Dj=E4rv?= Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jul 03 21:10:58 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1MMo9x-0001Y2-Eg for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 03 Jul 2009 21:10:57 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:58084 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MMo9w-0005NG-Jn for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 03 Jul 2009 15:10:56 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MMo9q-0005Jt-Q0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 03 Jul 2009 15:10:50 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MMo9q-0005IL-4L for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 03 Jul 2009 15:10:50 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=35490 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MMo9p-0005Hw-Un for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 03 Jul 2009 15:10:49 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout2.012.net.il ([84.95.2.4]:55177) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MMo9p-0003E9-HK for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 03 Jul 2009 15:10:49 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.i_mtaout2.012.net.il by i_mtaout2.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2004.12) id <0KM700E00ZWRHR00@i_mtaout2.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 03 Jul 2009 22:10:48 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([77.127.194.175]) by i_mtaout2.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2004.12) with ESMTPA id <0KM7008NLZXZCRR0@i_mtaout2.012.net.il>; Fri, 03 Jul 2009 22:10:48 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <4A4E2E73.3020706@swipnet.se> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Solaris 9.1 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:111985 Archived-At: > Date: Fri, 03 Jul 2009 18:14:43 +0200 > From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Jan_Dj=E4rv?= > CC: fitzsim@fitzsim.org, drew.adams@oracle.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org > > > Why are we doing this in C, rather than adding the invisible-pointer > > option to avoid.el? > > > > Because it uses a timer. The alternative to use a timer is to track mouse > which is heavy in lisp. But avoid.el already does all this, and works just fine. > There is no need to add more CPU-consuming thing to Emacs, it already does far > too many task over and over again, which isn't really needed. Emacs Lisp timers don't consume any CPU cycles.