From: Bill White <billw@wolfram.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Temporarily disabling mouse avoidance mode automatically
Date: Wed, 03 Dec 2008 18:03:57 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87hc5kdcwi.fsf@wolfram.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 001801c9556c$f7a340b0$c2b22382@us.oracle.com
On Wed Dec 03 2008 at 11:31, "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com> wrote:
> 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.
Cheers -
bw, eagerly awaiting Drew's rat poison
--
Bill White . billw@wolfram.com . http://members.wolfram.com/billw
"No ma'am, we're musicians."
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-12-04 0:03 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 [this message]
2008-12-04 16:45 ` Drew Adams
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