Limit to keyboard events

[perstar]

I suggest that only keyboard events are mentioned, not <mouse-movement>, <menu-bar>, <switch-frame> etc., which are generally not useful to see in a screencast.

[rswgnu]

Thus should be an option. Drag events for example can be useful to see. Also an option to enlarge the mouse cursor would help to make it visible in presentations.

[perstar]

It's think you are right in that it's possible there can be some other events that can be useful sometimes, but I think that should be exceptions in that case. Just showing everything isn't really useful if you do a lot of mousing, whereas it seems natural to say that keypression is for showing key events. For example having

<menu-bar> <help-menu> <about-emacs>

logged doesn't help anyone. People watching saw that you chose Help>About Emacs in the menus anyway.
But the main problem is that there sometimes are so many events so other things are drowned out. You mention drag events. A simple mouse-set-region with drag-mouse-1 now actually generates

<down-mouse-1>
<mouse-movement>
<mouse-movement>
<mouse-movement>
<mouse-movement>
<mouse-movement> ...
<drag-mouse-1>

mouse-movement not the only event that is mostly noise.

[rswgnu]

Try setting the option that prints a single entry for multiple sequential events of the same type and see how that works. With that on, I haven’t noticed this problem, though I agree being able to filter certain kinds of events would be helpful.

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On Aug 16, 2020, at 10:20 AM, perstar ***@***.***> wrote:  It's think you are right in that it's possible there can be some other events that can be useful sometimes, but I think that should be exceptions in that case. Just showing everything isn't really useful if you do a lot of mousing, whereas it seems natural to say that keypression is for showing key events. For example having <menu-bar> <help-menu> <about-emacs> logged doesn't help anyone. People watching saw that you chose Help>About Emacs in the menus anyway. But the main problem is that there sometimes are so many events so other things are drowned out. You mention drag events. A simple mouse-set-region with drag-mouse-1 now actually generates <down-mouse-1> <mouse-movement> <mouse-movement> <mouse-movement> <mouse-movement> <mouse-movement> ... <drag-mouse-1> mouse-movement not the only event that is mostly noise. — You are receiving this because you commented. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub, or unsubscribe.

[chuntaro]

Removed mouse event noise and added defcustom!

[rswgnu]

Aren’t you missing the down events of mouse1-3? Maybe the event-basic-type handles this.

I would prefer 2 defcustoms, one boolean to turn the setting on and off and another to specify the list of events to filter out.

[chuntaro]

I'm using the event-basic-type function, so this is fine.
If you use (setq keypression-ignore-mouse-events nil), all events will be displayed, so I think this is good.

[perstar]

I would still prefer to limit keypression to keyboard events. Of the three examples I gave in my original report mouse-movement events are now filtered out by default, but not menu-bar or switch-frame. (Other examples are tool-bar events and tab-bar events.)

[jcs090218]

I agree with @perstar, switch-frame event is quite annoying...