From: "Jan Djärv" <jan.h.d@swipnet.se>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: fitzsim@fitzsim.org, drew.adams@oracle.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: invisible mouse pointer?
Date: Fri, 03 Jul 2009 18:14:43 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A4E2E73.3020706@swipnet.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83eisx3hlv.fsf@gnu.org>
Eli Zaretskii skrev:
>> Date: Fri, 03 Jul 2009 13:50:07 +0200
>> From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Jan_Dj=E4rv?= <jan.h.d@swipnet.se>
>> Cc: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>, 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?
>
Because it uses a timer. The alternative to use a timer is to track mouse
which is heavy in lisp.
There is no need to add more CPU-consuming thing to Emacs, it already does far
too many task over and over again, which isn't really needed.
Jan D.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-07-03 16:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-12-03 17:28 invisible mouse pointer? Drew Adams
2008-12-03 17:46 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2008-12-03 17:58 ` Drew Adams
2008-12-03 19:28 ` Jan Djärv
2008-12-03 19:52 ` Drew Adams
2008-12-03 20:06 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2008-12-03 18:58 ` Thomas Fitzsimmons
2008-12-03 19:14 ` Drew Adams
2009-07-03 11:50 ` Jan Djärv
2009-07-03 14:39 ` Jan Djärv
2009-07-03 15:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-07-03 15:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-07-03 17:26 ` Jan Djärv
2009-07-03 17:41 ` Lennart Borgman
2009-07-03 18:30 ` Jan D.
2009-07-03 18:33 ` Lennart Borgman
2009-07-03 19:08 ` Jan Djärv
2009-07-03 19:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-07-03 19:31 ` Leo
2009-07-03 22:32 ` Lennart Borgman
2009-07-03 19:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-07-03 19:13 ` Jan Djärv
2009-07-03 19:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-07-03 19:21 ` Jan Djärv
2009-07-03 23:42 ` Lennart Borgman
2009-07-03 16:14 ` Jan Djärv [this message]
2009-07-03 19:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-07-03 19:25 ` Jan Djärv
2009-07-03 20:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
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