From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: "'Bill White'" <billw@wolfram.com>, <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: RE: Temporarily disabling mouse avoidance mode automatically
Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2008 08:45:17 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <00fa01c9562f$b04e4160$c2b22382@us.oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87hc5kdcwi.fsf@wolfram.com>
> > But you made me think. It would be nice if Emacs could
> > (optionally) do what some apps do: Hide the mouse pointer
> > completely, until you move the mouse. That way, the pointer
> > would not simply be moved away when
> > you use mainly the keyboard; it would disappear altogether.
> > You would be able to have an on-demand mouse.
> >
> > That would be a good mode value to add to
> > `mouse-avoidance-mode': `vanish'.
>
> I'd *love* to have something like that! Now that I think of
> it, I never use the mouse in emacs. It often proves a distraction
> by inadvertently highlighting previous shell inputs or sitting
> atop something that vomits up a tooltip (or the tooltip's quieter
> but still annoying companion, flashing echo area text).
>
> VLC media player automatically hides the cursor a moment after it
> stops moving.
>
> bw, eagerly awaiting Drew's rat poison
Sorry, I don't poison rats (having had a pet rat as a boy). ;-)
FWIW, I've suggested this to emacs-devel@gnu.org as a possible feature (after
the release) - thread "invisible mouse pointer?". Two people replied that they
have C patches to Emacs that implement this. So maybe something will come of it
eventually.
I do use a mouse, myself, so I don't really care one way or the other. But if
you're interested, you might follow up with emacs-devel. If you build Emacs
yourself, you might even try the C patches proposed, to have the feature for
yourself right away.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-12-04 16:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-12-03 16:35 Temporarily disabling mouse avoidance mode automatically Corey Foote
2008-12-03 17:31 ` Drew Adams
2008-12-04 0:03 ` Bill White
2008-12-04 16:45 ` Drew Adams [this message]
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