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 18:34:52 +0300 Message-ID: <83eisx3hlv.fsf@gnu.org> References: <001701c9556c$9e613750$c2b22382@us.oracle.com> <4A4DF06F.8050701@swipnet.se> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1246635332 4007 80.91.229.12 (3 Jul 2009 15:35:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 3 Jul 2009 15:35:32 +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 17:35:25 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 1MMknM-0006Ey-Lg for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 03 Jul 2009 17:35:24 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:47615 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MMknL-0006VJ-VL for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 03 Jul 2009 11:35:23 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MMknG-0006V2-Eq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 03 Jul 2009 11:35:18 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MMknE-0006Qu-9Y for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 03 Jul 2009 11:35:17 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=48145 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MMknE-0006Qh-5e for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 03 Jul 2009 11:35:16 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout6.012.net.il ([84.95.2.16]:32669) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MMknD-00050s-N7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 03 Jul 2009 11:35:15 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.i-mtaout6.012.net.il by i-mtaout6.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0KM700N00PJT4A00@i-mtaout6.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 03 Jul 2009 18:34:54 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([77.127.194.175]) by i-mtaout6.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0KM7005ILPY4N370@i-mtaout6.012.net.il>; Fri, 03 Jul 2009 18:34:53 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <4A4DF06F.8050701@swipnet.se> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (1203?) 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:111967 Archived-At: > Date: Fri, 03 Jul 2009 13:50:07 +0200 > From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Jan_Dj=E4rv?= > Cc: Drew Adams , emacs-devel@gnu.org > > Thomas Fitzsimmons skrev: > > > > I also looked into this a while ago and couldn't find a way to > > completely hide the pointer, so I wrote the attached patch. Ideally > > this low-level functionality would be exposed through a new mouse > > avoidance mode, as you suggest. > > I just checked in a fix for this so the pointer becomes invisible when you > type something. Why are we doing this in C, rather than adding the invisible-pointer option to avoid.el?