Re: [PATCH] terminal split

[Colin D Bennett]

On Tue, 4 Nov 2008 20:12:56 +0100
Robert Millan <address@hidden> wrote:

> On Tue, Nov 04, 2008 at 08:53:22PM +0200, Vesa Jääskeläinen wrote:
> > 
> > I think multipath would be nice feature. Eg. you can have
> > serial/other remote connected and then have local terminal at same
> > time.
> 
> In fact we need that if we ever want to support reading from AT
> keyboards and USB keyboards at the same time (we don't know which one
> is there, so whenever using hardware access for one of them, we need
> to try both).

Good point.  Don't forget that machines may have multiple USB keyboards
attached, as well.  I have used multi-keyboard, multi-mouse machines
before in a pair programming environment. (This does not necessarily
promote good pair programming practices, however.)

Regards,
Colin

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