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From: janssen@titan.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.windows.misc
Subject: Re: Automatic mouse cursor movement
Summary: well...  Warping can come in handy
Message-ID: <735@titan.SW.MCC.COM>
Date: 8 Jun 88 00:47:45 GMT
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While I generally agree that warping the mouse (say to the center of a
newly de-iconified xterm) is usually distracting, it can come in handy.
We have a version of GNU Emacs that supports multiple Emacs-Screens, where
each screen is a single X10 window.  The minibuffer is one such E-Screen.
When you ^X^F, you expect the minibuffer to become the selected Emacs
window, which will only happen if the E-Screen of the minibuffer is the
selected X10 window ("real estate" focus management).  For some
time we didn't warp the mouse; the user had to type ^X^F, then move the
mouse to the minibuffer, then type in the file name, then move the mouse
back.  Truly a pain.  Warping the mouse turned out to be a simple and
natural way of solving the problem.

Bill