From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Drew Adams" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: RE: Temporarily disabling mouse avoidance mode automatically Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2008 08:45:17 -0800 Message-ID: <00fa01c9562f$b04e4160$c2b22382@us.oracle.com> References: <001801c9556c$f7a340b0$c2b22382@us.oracle.com> <87hc5kdcwi.fsf@wolfram.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1228409285 15567 80.91.229.12 (4 Dec 2008 16:48:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2008 16:48:05 +0000 (UTC) To: "'Bill White'" , Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Dec 04 17:49:08 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1L8HNn-0008UL-45 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 04 Dec 2008 17:48:55 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:54050 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1L8HMc-0007YY-Jd for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 04 Dec 2008 11:47:42 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1L8HLs-0007Nv-JU for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Dec 2008 11:46:56 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1L8HLr-0007NS-Un for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Dec 2008 11:46:56 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=44961 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1L8HLr-0007NM-QT for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Dec 2008 11:46:55 -0500 Original-Received: from acsinet11.oracle.com ([141.146.126.233]:30268) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1L8HLr-0000rS-B1 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Dec 2008 11:46:55 -0500 Original-Received: from acsinet13.oracle.com (acsinet13.oracle.com [141.146.126.235]) by acsinet11.oracle.com (Switch-3.3.1/Switch-3.3.1) with ESMTP id mB4GkAUB028148 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Thu, 4 Dec 2008 16:46:11 GMT Original-Received: from acsmt703.oracle.com (acsmt703.oracle.com [141.146.40.81]) by acsinet13.oracle.com (Switch-3.3.1/Switch-3.3.1) with ESMTP id mB4GjaSV000568; Thu, 4 Dec 2008 16:45:37 GMT Original-Received: from dradamslap1 (/130.35.178.194) by default (Oracle Beehive Gateway v4.0) with ESMTP ; Thu, 04 Dec 2008 08:45:14 -0800 X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 In-Reply-To: <87hc5kdcwi.fsf@wolfram.com> Thread-Index: AclVpVAvWzWAVLr9SC+8vZYI3Yp9iQAh8gAA X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3350 X-Source-IP: acsmt703.oracle.com [141.146.40.81] X-Auth-Type: Internal IP X-CT-RefId: str=0001.0A090201.4938091C.002F:SCFSTAT928724,ss=1,fgs=0 X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 1) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:60365 Archived-At: > > 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.