From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
Date: Thu, 11 Sep 1997 11:41:33 +0200
From: elliott Elliott.Hughes@genedata.com
Subject: Hiding the pointer (was Re: [9fans] Arrow keys)
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Steve_Kilbane@cegelecproj.co.uk wrote:
> Vanishing pointers drive me up the wall. I like to know where the
> pointer is at all times, but that's just me. My particular
> favourite: MS Word making the pointer disappear as you move it over
> the grey area that surrounds the WYSIAWYG page...makes me want to
> scream.

they tried to make me use MS Word the other day, and exactly that
feature made me refuse and delete it. does anyone know why they did
that? i can see the point of hiding the pointer while you're typing:
sometimes it's a pain to be typing under the pointer and not really
being able to see what you've typed (that's always my excuse for typos
;-) but why on Earth would anyone want to hide the pointer in two-thirds
of their screen area? ridiculous!

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