Re: Proposal: Only highlight mouse-face when mouse is moved

[Eli Zaretskii]

On Sat, 16 Feb 2002, Richard Stallman wrote:

>     > So IMHO it could just replace the current behaviour, and I really
>     > don't think there is a need for an option to bring back the old
>     > behaviour (nor to disable mouse highlight all together).
> 
>     Someone explicitly asked for a total disable option, either here or
>     on gnu.emacs.bug.
> 
> That doesn't mean we should add one.  Users ask for many features;
> only some are worth implementing.

Except that in this case, you replied by asking whether someone wants
to code it ;-)

> Besides, the feature being added now does almost the same job.
> People who want to turn off mouse highlighting will probably be
> happy using that instead.

I'm not sure, but the future will tell.