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From: mckee@corwin.ccs.northeastern.EDU (George McKee)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: The morality of warping the cursor
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Date: 30 Jun 88 21:23:00 GMT
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Things get more interesting if you have more than one cursor.
For instance if you have a text window that allows you to cut from
anywhere but paste and type only at one point, like a (pardon the
expression) Sun shelltool does, it's real nice to have the text
cursor warp down to the fixed typein point whenever you type any
character.
	But the mouse pointer doesn't warp.  You can then unwarp
the text cursor back to wherever the mouse pointer is with a single
button click.  I could envision a complex system with several kinds
of cursors under control of different mouse buttons, some of which
are warped by the program under certain conditions.
	There should always be something like a window-manager-cursor
that never gets warped, though.

	- George McKee
	  NU Computer Science