[BRLTTY] Feature request: Binding the display to the system caret.

[Hermann]

On 23.08.2008 at 17:56:43 Dave Mielke <dave at mielke.cc> wrote:

> [quoted lines by Hermann on 2008/08/23 at 17:27 +0200]
>
>>But not the other way. I think there should be a feature that binds the
>>up/down keys of the braille display to the cursor. When continuosly
>>reading with the display, the cursor gets tracked without taking your
>>hands off the display.
>
> Do you see this being impemented as a togglable feature? It could certainly be 
> done, except that we'd then have to look for good key bindings in all the 
> drivers.
>
It should be optional, e.g. you press a key conbination to invoke it and
again to stop it.
I see the problem to bind it to an appropriate keystroke in every
display, but I cannot offer a solution for that.

>>In case you know the DOS driver of the Alva ABT3xx series, you should
>>know what I mean. There was such a synchronization feature.
>
> I've never been a DOS or Windows user. How did they implement it?
>
I cannot tell about its internal code, but it was optional and assigned
to a certain keystroke.
Obviously it only worked if the application uses a hardware cursor.
Hermann