[BRLTTY] Odd numbers of braille cells

Nicolas Pitre nico at cam.org
Sun Oct 2 23:05:03 EDT 2005


On Sun, 2 Oct 2005, Samuel Thibault wrote:

> Nicolas Pitre, le Sun 02 Oct 2005 17:46:51 -0400, a écrit :
> > On Sun, 2 Oct 2005, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> > 
> > > Maybe we could add a hook in the linux screen driver which would call
> > > ioctl(0, TIOCSWINSZ, {ws_row=24, ws_col=70}) itself ?
> > 
> > NO!  Never do things like that.
> > 
> > This is policy best kept outside of BRLTTY,
> 
> This could be an option.

This is needless duplication.

> > especially when there is an easy solution: the stty command like you
> > mentioned.
> 
> Ok, but it needs to be properly documented, because else people won't
> know this possibility.

Indeed!  Documenting existing tools that can do the job is the best 
thing to do and is much more flexible.


Nicolas


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