Re: invisible mouse pointer?

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Fri, 03 Jul 2009 18:14:43 +0200
> From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Jan_Dj=E4rv?= <address@hidden>
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> > 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.

But avoid.el already does all this, and works just fine.

> 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.

Emacs Lisp timers don't consume any CPU cycles.