Re: invisible mouse pointer?

[Jan Djärv]

Eli Zaretskii skrev:
> > Date: Fri, 03 Jul 2009 13:50:07 +0200
> > From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Jan_Dj=E4rv?= <address@hidden>
> > Cc: Drew Adams <address@hidden>, address@hidden
> >
> > 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.