Re: [rudalics@gmx.at: Re: [simon.marshall@misys.com: mouse-autoselect-window needs a de lay]]

[storm@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm)]

martin rudalics <rudalics@gmx.at> writes:

>> I don't think that the delay stuff is a good strategy: it brakes and
>> confuses the user when he indeed wants to change focus, and it causes
>> hectic when he doesn't.
>
> That's what I thought before I started implementing this.  Currently, I
> use a value of -0.5, that is, wait for about a second after I started
> moving the mouse and select the other window iff the mouse doesn't move
> any more.  So far I didn't notice any confusion with these settings.

To me it makes more sense if this "move and stop" is the default method
(ie. selected with a positive delay value).  The negative value could
be for experts which want just the move delay.

But why not separate the two timeout settings, e.g. make it a cons with
the "move delay" in the car and "stopped delay" in the cdr.  That's
easy to set via customize.

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