From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: change cursor type when idle Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2006 14:17:00 -0600 Organization: IHS Message-ID: References: <7dbe73ed0608290651q3f227a1au3fa98c8095a6d8c5@mail.gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1156882854 22633 80.91.229.2 (29 Aug 2006 20:20:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2006 20:20:54 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Aug 29 22:20:53 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GIA3X-0005Ee-5R for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 29 Aug 2006 22:19:31 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GIA3W-0000XV-Ba for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 29 Aug 2006 16:19:30 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GIA3I-0000RB-QR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 29 Aug 2006 16:19:16 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GIA3H-0000Mw-8D for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 29 Aug 2006 16:19:16 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GIA3G-0000Mf-UA for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 29 Aug 2006 16:19:14 -0400 Original-Received: from [80.91.229.2] (helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1GIACW-00053n-2h for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 29 Aug 2006 16:28:48 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1GIA2O-0004xL-2q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 29 Aug 2006 22:18:20 +0200 Original-Received: from 207.167.42.206 ([207.167.42.206]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 29 Aug 2006 22:18:20 +0200 Original-Received: from ihs_4664 by 207.167.42.206 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 29 Aug 2006 22:18:20 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-Lines: 21 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 207.167.42.206 User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.5 (Windows/20060719) In-Reply-To: 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:59076 Archived-At: Drew Adams wrote: > > only when I need to locate it. I usually use cursor movement keys > > to move the cursor foreward-backward to find its location, but > > this is not convenient. > > How about doing something similar to what `mouse-avoidance-mode' does, > but the other way around? For example, after being idle for X seconds, > let the mouse cursor zoom to the location of the cursor. > > Just an idea; locating the cursor is not a big issue for me. > > It's a joke, right? Argh! > > Make the _eye_ zoom to the cursor location, not the mouse - that's the > feature to design. ;-) The text around the cursor should ripple like a pond where a pebble has been dropped. :-) -- Kevin