It is difficult to comment because you are often mixing things. Or as an 
example you contradict yourself

[email protected] schrieb am Dienstag, 1. Februar 2022 um 15:41:14 UTC+1:

>  Hiding would only be temporary: other actions make the magnifier appear 
> and "hiding" would not suppress that.

and later 

> I want the new 'm' key operation to be the only thing that hides the 
> magnifier.
>
>  

> I would entirely remove the timer.  It's only purpose is to hide the 
> magnifier.  I see no logic to when that timer is used vs. not used.  Maybe 
> the original intent was to always have that timer (never let the magnifier 
> stay in view for over 2 seconds).  As a user I see* zero* value in timer 
> based hiding of the magnifier.  But if others strongly disagree, (with 
> significantly more work) I could invent a setting to allow that feature to 
> be disabled (rather than take the feature away from everyone).
>
I disagree: I like the feature that the magnifier disappear so I have a 
better view on the whole neighbourhood of the cp. This makes it easier for 
me the judge the cp.
 
 

> With my limited understanding of mercurial, I was able to see the timer 
> feature was added by ippei in commit 91503d5bebff
>
No. This was a major overhaul of the structure. The timer was added in 
changeset 689b688f70f5.


> I also want to remove all other existing logic for hiding the magnifier, 
> such as hiding it when the image itself is zoomed 200%.  
>
The disabling of the magnifier for the 200 % view was added as a feature 
request. So there are uses which prefer this.
 

> I would tend to want to pretest and commit all those and related features 
> all together.  But I have been warned that doing so would make things too 
> hard for whoever reviews/merges my changes. 
>
Please, one change - one changeset. Do not mix things in one changeset. You 
can also send patches (diff files) for other people for testing.

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