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Diffstat (limited to 'admin')
| -rw-r--r-- | admin/notes/multi-tty | 21 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 15 deletions
diff --git a/admin/notes/multi-tty b/admin/notes/multi-tty index 7783eb395e7..08608b14c58 100644 --- a/admin/notes/multi-tty +++ b/admin/notes/multi-tty | |||
| @@ -402,28 +402,17 @@ THINGS TO DO | |||
| 402 | 402 | ||
| 403 | ** The single-keyboard mode of MULTI_KBOARD is extremely confusing | 403 | ** The single-keyboard mode of MULTI_KBOARD is extremely confusing |
| 404 | sometimes; Emacs does not respond to stimuli from other keyboards. | 404 | sometimes; Emacs does not respond to stimuli from other keyboards. |
| 405 | At least a beep or a message would be important, if the single-mode | 405 | (Reported by Dan Nicolaescu.) |
| 406 | is still required to prevent interference. (Reported by Dan | ||
| 407 | Nicolaescu.) | ||
| 408 | 406 | ||
| 409 | Update: selecting a region with the mouse enables single_kboard | 407 | Update: selecting a region with the mouse enables single_kboard |
| 410 | under X. This is very confusing. | 408 | under X. This is very confusing. |
| 411 | 409 | ||
| 412 | Update: After discussions with Richard Stallman, this will be | 410 | Update: After discussions with Richard Stallman, this will be |
| 413 | resolved by having locked displays warn the user to wait, and | 411 | resolved introducing a complex protocol to remotely bail out of |
| 414 | introducing a complex protocol to remotely bail out of | ||
| 415 | single-kboard mode by pressing C-g. | 412 | single-kboard mode by pressing C-g. |
| 416 | 413 | ||
| 417 | Update: Warning the user is not trivial to implement, as Emacs has | 414 | Update (from spwhitton): We have instead added the new |
| 418 | only one echo area, shared by all frames. Ideally the warning | 415 | 'multiple-terminals-merge-keyboards' user option (bug#79892). |
| 419 | should not be displayed on the display that is locking the others. | ||
| 420 | Perhaps the high probability of user confusion caused by | ||
| 421 | single_kboard mode deserves a special case in the display code. | ||
| 422 | Alternatively, it might be good enough to signal single_kboard mode | ||
| 423 | by changing the modelines or some other frame-local display element | ||
| 424 | on the locked out displays. | ||
| 425 | |||
| 426 | Update: In fact struct kboard does have an echo_string slot. | ||
| 427 | 416 | ||
| 428 | ** The session management module is prone to crashes when the X | 417 | ** The session management module is prone to crashes when the X |
| 429 | connection is closed and then later I try to connect to a new X | 418 | connection is closed and then later I try to connect to a new X |
| @@ -518,6 +507,8 @@ THINGS TO DO | |||
| 518 | ** flow-ctrl.el must be updated. | 507 | ** flow-ctrl.el must be updated. |
| 519 | 508 | ||
| 520 | ** Fix stuff_char for multi-tty. Doesn't seem to be of high priority. | 509 | ** Fix stuff_char for multi-tty. Doesn't seem to be of high priority. |
| 510 | For security reasons stuff_char does not work by default on many | ||
| 511 | platforms, which makes such a fix even lower priority. | ||
| 521 | 512 | ||
| 522 | DIARY OF CHANGES | 513 | DIARY OF CHANGES |
| 523 | ---------------- | 514 | ---------------- |