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Subject: Re: [9front] PATCH: click-to-focus in fgui
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Quoth Eckard Brauer <eckard.brauer@gmx.de>:
> > > I guess I really want the focus following my eyes.  
> > 
> > no you really don't
> 
> I'd rather want focus to follow the mouse lazily as long as there's a
> possibility to switch/cycle windows with the keyboard. So I usually
> don't have an idea where the mouse pointer is left and do most of the
> work with the keyboard. Mouse is only used for selecting/pasting.
> 
> But that's not much approved (and maybe possible at all) on Plan 9.
> IMHO it'd be best to leave the user to choose, if it's with a path or
> compile time #ifdefs, it would be fine for me.

Has anyone played with having the mouse cursor always followed the
keyboard location, rather than the mouse always determining focus?

I'm trying to think of times when I really need to have the mouse stay
wherever it is on the screen while typing.  More often than not, I
have to move the mouse if it's over a couple letters that I need to
see and perhaps it would be easier to always know where it is (the
keyboard cursor when not being actively used).  I think that might
make it faster to write out something to run, copy, paste, etc.: most
of the interactions I used the mouse in conjunction with the keyboard
for.