Don't like cursor-to-screen

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3 total messages Started by David S. Browning Fri, 22 May 1992 21:40

#1375

Author: David S. Browning
Date: Fri, 22 May 1992 21:40

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[Sorry if this is a duplicate post.
NNTP hiccuped just as this was posted.]

Running Epoch 4.0p1 on Iris 4D w/ Irix 4.0.1.

I think Epoch is overzealous in warping the mouse cursor.  For
example, when I "remove-screen" the current screen, epoch warps the
mouse cursor (and focus) to some other screen on my display.  I don't
want it to!  Nor do I want it to warp the mouse cursor when I create
another screen.  I want complete control over the mouse cursor.

The function "cursor-to-screen" seems to be included in a great many
functions in epoch-lisp/epoch.el.  Perhaps it is mandatory in some of
the screen functions.  (I don't know of any, but I haven't read the
code thoroughly.)  In any case, I want to inhibit the warping behavior
I just described.

I will go through epoch-lisp/epoch.el and remove cursor-to-screen from
places I don't want it, unless someone can suggest a better way.  For
future versions of Epoch (or Emacs v19, if that's to be the next
"version" of Epoch), I strongly recommend that this be something the
user can customize.

-- David

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Re: Don't like cursor-to-screen

#1380

Author: Kevin Humphreys
Date: Mon, 25 May 1992 11:03

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In article <1992May22.214026.10347@nas.nasa.gov> browning@willard.nas.nasa.gov (David S. Browning) writes:

> I will go through epoch-lisp/epoch.el and remove cursor-to-screen from
> places I don't want it, unless someone can suggest a better way.

A slightly easier way is to just redefine 'cursor-to-screen' so that
it doesn't do anything significant when it gets called.  From my .emacs:

	; a new cursor-to-screen without yukky mouse warp
	(defun cursor-to-screen (scr)
	  (interactive)
	  (if auto-raise-screen (raise-screen scr)))

(Thanks to Lex Holt for this)


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Re: Don't like cursor-to-screen

#1379

Author: Richard Caley
Date: Mon, 25 May 1992 18:55

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In article <1992May22.214026.10347@nas.nasa.gov>, David S. Browning (dsb) writes:


dsb> I think Epoch is overzealous in warping the mouse cursor.  

Any warping is overzealous! :-).

I do the following in my .emacs.

	 (defun cursor-to-screen (s) (raise-screen s))

This is much more civilised.

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rjc@cogsci.ed.ac.uk			_O_
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