mouse-avoidance-mode

mouse-avoidance-mode is an interactive autoloaded compiled Lisp function in `avoid.el'.


(mouse-avoidance-mode &optional MODE)

Set Mouse Avoidance mode to MODE.
MODE should be one of the symbols `banish', `exile', `jump', `animate',
`cat-and-mouse', `proteus', or `none'.

If MODE is nil, toggle mouse avoidance between `none' and `banish'
modes. Positive numbers and symbols other than the above are treated
as equivalent to `banish'; negative numbers and `-' are equivalent to `none'.

Effects of the different modes:
* banish: Move the mouse to the upper-right corner on any keypress.
* exile: Move the mouse to the corner only if the cursor gets too close,
and allow it to return once the cursor is out of the way.
* jump: If the cursor gets too close to the mouse, displace the mouse
a random distance & direction.
* animate: As `jump', but shows steps along the way for illusion of motion.
* cat-and-mouse: Same as `animate'.
* proteus: As `animate', but changes the shape of the mouse pointer too.

(See `mouse-avoidance-threshold' for definition of "too close",
and `mouse-avoidance-nudge-dist' and `mouse-avoidance-nudge-var' for
definition of "random distance".)