Is it possible to use different keyboards for different applications?

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Published on 2009-12-01T22:12:22Z Indexed on 2012/10/07 21:41 UTC
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What I would like is this:

I would have two keyboards. One of them is "connected" to Matlab, the other is "connected" to my text editor of choice. This way, I could edit some script and still test some commands in Matlab without having to constantly switch between the applications.

Basically, I would want to have an additional keyboard attached to my computer that solely controlled Matlab. That would be awesome!

Is there any way to do this? Preferably with OSX, but it would be fun on Windows or Linux, too.

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