[BRLTTY] brltty "keyboard braille device" support (and a few more things)

[Dave Mielke]

[quoted lines by Mario Lang on 2007/01/25 at 02:30 +0100]

>> - Disconnect/reconnect of bluetooth-connected braille devices without
>>   restarting the screenreader.
>
>As I vaguely remember we already discussed in Karlsruhe, this
>is already working.  In fact, BRLTTY can even switch between
>different display models and transport modes (serial, usb, bluettoth)
>if the user has that configured, without restarting the daemon.

This is correct. What doesn't work, however, is brltty doing anything else
while waiting for the braille display to reconnect. We'd need to restructure it
so that commands from the keyboard are read and processed while waiting for the
display to reconnect.

>> - Keyboard-operated cut&paste support between programs and consoles.
>
>Cut and paste is already working, but currently only available
>from braille display keys.  So this item is a nobrainer once we have
>keyboard input implemented.

Yes, but to interact with other programs we'd need to use the system clipboard
rather than (or in addition to) a cut buffer which is strictly internal to
brltty.

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