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From: Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support>
To: Arthur Miller <arthur.miller@live.com>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Best strategy to disable a touchpad on a laptop when in Emacs?
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2021 13:36:34 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YGRQsrAWVFJeFA5I@protected.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AM9PR09MB49770BA7F4DA1BA4A67E3262967C9@AM9PR09MB4977.eurprd09.prod.outlook.com>

* Arthur Miller <arthur.miller@live.com> [2021-03-31 13:34]:
> Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support> writes:
> 
> > * Arthur Miller <arthur.miller@live.com> [2021-03-31 09:33]:
> >> disable-mouse works good enough seems like, at least good enough for me,
> >> so I'll go with that. Thanks Purcell!
> >
> > OK you really wish to disable touchpad explicitly. I was thinking you
> > are finding solution to disable touchpad while typing so that palm
> > does not interfer with it.
> 
> Well, yes, that is what I wanted, but only in Emacs, not in other
> applications. I don't wanna go click every now and then in some system
> dialog or something. Disable-mouse-mode does the job.

For this function:
https://endlessparentheses.com/disable-mouse-only-inside-emacs.html

- how can we turn on that minor mode this function with the first key
  typed? That would disable the touchpad during typing.

- how can we turn off that minor mode, 2 or number seconds after
  typing?

-- 
Jean

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  reply	other threads:[~2021-03-31 10:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-03-31  0:40 Best strategy to disable a touchpad on a laptop when in Emacs? Arthur Miller
2021-03-31  5:11 ` Jean Louis
2021-03-31  5:22   ` Arthur Miller
2021-03-31  5:23   ` Arthur Miller
2021-03-31  5:40     ` Jean Louis
2021-03-31  6:05       ` Arthur Miller
2021-03-31  6:25         ` Arthur Miller
2021-03-31  6:55           ` Jean Louis
2021-03-31 10:33             ` Arthur Miller
2021-03-31 10:36               ` Jean Louis [this message]
2021-03-31 12:34                 ` Arthur Miller
2021-03-31  8:32 ` Yuri Khan
2021-03-31 10:31   ` Arthur Miller
2021-03-31 10:34     ` Jean Louis

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