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diff --git a/admin/notes/multi-tty b/admin/notes/multi-tty index 7783eb395e7..fff20a1769b 100644 --- a/admin/notes/multi-tty +++ b/admin/notes/multi-tty @@ -402,29 +402,15 @@ THINGS TO DO ** The single-keyboard mode of MULTI_KBOARD is extremely confusing sometimes; Emacs does not respond to stimuli from other keyboards. - At least a beep or a message would be important, if the single-mode - is still required to prevent interference. (Reported by Dan - Nicolaescu.) + (Reported by Dan Nicolaescu.) Update: selecting a region with the mouse enables single_kboard under X. This is very confusing. Update: After discussions with Richard Stallman, this will be - resolved by having locked displays warn the user to wait, and - introducing a complex protocol to remotely bail out of + resolved introducing a complex protocol to remotely bail out of single-kboard mode by pressing C-g. - Update: Warning the user is not trivial to implement, as Emacs has - only one echo area, shared by all frames. Ideally the warning - should not be displayed on the display that is locking the others. - Perhaps the high probability of user confusion caused by - single_kboard mode deserves a special case in the display code. - Alternatively, it might be good enough to signal single_kboard mode - by changing the modelines or some other frame-local display element - on the locked out displays. - - Update: In fact struct kboard does have an echo_string slot. - ** The session management module is prone to crashes when the X connection is closed and then later I try to connect to a new X session: |