[BRLTTY] Attribute cursor.

[Tom Masterson]

I  use alsamixer and brltty console when I need to adjust things.  If
you note the currently highlighted function is surrounded by < > signs
like <Master>..
Tom

On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 05:22:24PM +0100, Hermann wrote:
> On 17.03.2009 at 17:00:05 Dave Mielke <dave at mielke.cc> wrote:
> 
> > [quoted lines by Hermann on 2009/03/17 at 16:39 +0100]
> >
> >>In SBL, there are settings files - so called profiles - to define which
> >>color combination is defined as an attribute. It is possible to set
> >>several such attributes, and you can define how many of them are watched
> >>- regularly one.
> >
> > One profile per program? I doubt that works all the time because one program 
> > can run another one, e.g. screen or telnet.
> >
> I guess for this case there's the possibility to select several
> attributes be watched.
> But in fact there is one profile for one program.
> And I think when one programm calls another, you simply have to set up a
> profile for that new one. Only one program is in the forground, or am I
> wrong?
> 
> > So let's design what brltty should support. Should we go the sbl route and have 
> > program profiles and attempt to figure out which program is currently running? 
> > Another possibility is to have a routing key based command which instructs 
> > brltty to use the attributes of the selected character when searching for an 
> > attribute cursor. Are there any other alternatives to consider?
> >
> I thin the second solutio is not that good, since such an attribute
> cursor can match several characters.
> So I would prefer the SBL way.
> But in general: How do Brltty users handle such programs like the
> alsamixer or mc?
> Are they simply be ignored?
> Hermann
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