On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 10:38:08PM +0100, Connor Lane Smith wrote: > imo (and stealing some ideas from Kurt) you should have separate boxes > which are filled with the output of the given command; you just type a > command and the box appears and starts to be filled. You can then type > your next command whenever you want, completely asynchronously, and > that's added on the end, and starts to be filled, too.
Being able to queue commands would be nice for the use case of playing something in mplayer, then realising in the next few minutes it will come to an end and wanting to append something else. I'm aware less command-centric media players can do this, but I am rather fond of mplayer.