From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Jan_Dj=E4rv?= Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: invisible mouse pointer? Date: Fri, 03 Jul 2009 18:14:43 +0200 Message-ID: <4A4E2E73.3020706@swipnet.se> References: <001701c9556c$9e613750$c2b22382@us.oracle.com> <4A4DF06F.8050701@swipnet.se> <83eisx3hlv.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1246638492 13137 80.91.229.12 (3 Jul 2009 16:28:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 3 Jul 2009 16:28:12 +0000 (UTC) Cc: fitzsim@fitzsim.org, drew.adams@oracle.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jul 03 18:28:04 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1MMlcK-0003mD-Ef for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 03 Jul 2009 18:28:04 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:50860 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MMlcJ-00073A-Tl for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 03 Jul 2009 12:28:03 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MMlcF-00071Q-5I for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 03 Jul 2009 12:27:59 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MMlcA-0006rr-FF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 03 Jul 2009 12:27:58 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=35505 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MMlcA-0006rS-9g for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 03 Jul 2009 12:27:54 -0400 Original-Received: from mtah31.telenor.se ([213.150.131.4]:35700) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MMlc8-0006jK-Mk; Fri, 03 Jul 2009 12:27:52 -0400 Original-Received: from iph2.telenor.se (iph2.telenor.se [195.54.127.133]) by mtah31.telenor.se (Postfix) with ESMTP id A4120916EE; Fri, 3 Jul 2009 18:14:45 +0200 (CEST) X-SMTPAUTH-B2: X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AgGUAOvKTUpV4S1uPGdsb2JhbACBUZc5AQEBATe0fYQSBQ X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.42,343,1243807200"; d="scan'208";a="25287489" Original-Received: from c-6e2de155.25-1-64736c10.cust.bredbandsbolaget.se (HELO coolsville.localdomain) ([85.225.45.110]) by iph2.telenor.se with ESMTP; 03 Jul 2009 18:14:45 +0200 Original-Received: from [172.20.199.5] (winter [172.20.199.5]) by coolsville.localdomain (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id BB7A87FA07B; Fri, 3 Jul 2009 18:14:44 +0200 (CEST) User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.22 (Macintosh/20090605) In-Reply-To: <83eisx3hlv.fsf@gnu.org> X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:111969 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii skrev: >> Date: Fri, 03 Jul 2009 13:50:07 +0200 >> From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Jan_Dj=E4rv?= >> Cc: Drew Adams , 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.