Programming productivity: How to hide cursor while typing

Programming productivity: How to hide cursor while typing

Whenever I click somewhere to type some code, by definition that's exactly where my mouse cursor is, which is obscuring what I'm trying to type. Often, if I forget to move the cursor away before starting to type, I'll find myself moving my hand from my keyboard back to my mouse just to move the cursor out of the way and then go back to typing.

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Guest [Entry]

"Like you, I've had this problem forever. So I have written a little script that hides the mouse cursor no matter what Windows application you are using.

Note that if you run Visual Studio (or anything) in elevated mode, you'll need to run my utility also in elevated mode."

Guest [Entry]

I know this isn't probably a viable solution for you but I like to not use the mouse at all by having key bindings for everything within the IDE. I can jump from pane to pane, error to error etc without having to touch the mouse. Also if your classes are nice and small, you won't have to be scrolling up and down classes too much (and even if you had to the arrow keys would suffice).