Re: Mention mouse-face changes mouse pointer shape

[Jason Rumney]

Lennart Borgman (gmail) wrote:
> The 'mouse-face text property changes the mouse pointer shape to a 
> hand, at least on w32. Should not this be mentioned, for example in
>
>   (info "(elisp) Pointer Shape")
>   (info "(elisp) Special Properties")

It seems the change was made immediately in response to the following 
comment in a discussion about implementing mouse-face in header and mode 
lines:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2005-05/msg01268.html

   >/ I've implemented mouse-face on mode-line./
   >

   This looks nice!

   But shouldn't the cursor change to a hand cursor rather than an arrow
   cursor when hoovering over a mouse-face?



I think the change was a mistake, instead we should have arranged the 
relevant areas to have both mouse-face and pointer text properties. But 
I don't know how much effort it will be now to go back and change this.