> either my mailer is broken or you forgot to attach a patch again. Probably the former. I remember I looked at the code. > why should someone use more than 2 mice ? Who cares? Tools must provide mechanism, not policy. If the contribution is clean and adding the missing documentation is affordable, I don't see why should it be refused. If it's clean you could even ask the contributor to fix the documentation accordingly, promising to accept the code+docs patch. My experience as a maintainer is that fixing docs is very painful; my experience as contributor is that I'm happy to document my stuff after the maintainer acknowledged my code will become mainstream. > I've even never used two at a time. I think people only have two > hands to use them, don't they ? Having arbitrary limits in the code is bad. Worse, it's *BAD*. The hack of supporting two mice was really a hack (and that is apparent from the code). But some gpm user was running an external program just to merge two mice into a single stream (and than feed it to gpm and repeat it to X). I couldn't afford a laptop at that time, so I couldn't appreciate how good running two mice is. No, I don't use one pointer in each hand, I just use either one or the other, but without changing the configuration each time I switch. Actually, you can't use both of them at the same time: you can't use the buttons on one side and motion on the other side. /alessandro