Also allow hiding the mouse on using arrow keys or backspace (non-modifier non-character keys)

[ddogfoodd]

mouse-hide-while-typing = true is a great feature. However I would like it to also hide the mouse when using the arrow keys. I don't know if other people would like that behavior so maybe it might be better to make an extra option for it instead of adding it to the mouse-hide-while-typing option.

What do you think?

[mitchellh]

I converted this to a discussion since it is a suggestion rather than an accepted feature.

Hm, I can see the desire. I think a more interesting design approach might be to hide the mouse if it contains text or if key encoding results in non-empty data sent to the pty. This latter condition would allow arrow keys as you desire to hide the mouse since they encode.

I have a memory that I tried this before but I can't fully remember if that's true or why I didn't continue with it.

[ddogfoodd]

Sounds good, I might look into it

[ddogfoodd]

I might have found your memory in another if condition. If the comment above it is to be believed, this might be what we actually want instead of looking for utf-8 data as mouse hiding is decided currently.

And in fact, it works for non-text keys (e.g. arrow keys and backspace) and still doesn't hide the mouse when creating or switching tabs. So this should be the wanted behavior if I don't miss something (e.g. Mac behavior as I just tested on Linux).

Here is my PR #2544.