[BRLTTY] Could CSRJMP_VERT be made to work with Lynx?

Lee Maschmeyer leemer1 at comcast.net
Mon Oct 24 20:11:29 EDT 2011


On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 01:51:14PM -0400, Dave Mielke wrote:
> [quoted lines by Lee Maschmeyer on 2011/10/23 at 08:04 -0400]
> 
> >The manual says this command may not always work, but from an
> >algorithm standpoint it doesn't seem like Lynx would be too hard. The
> >down arrow does go to the next link, but using the bc640 at least
> >this command does not succeed. I just tested it on Wikipedia and it
> >doesn't do anything for small moves and is incorrect for large ones.
> 
> Please retest with the latest development code.
> 
> The problem is that applications like lynx and vim temporarily move the cursor 
> to the status line in order to update it. When the old routing algorithm saw 
> the cursor move to an unexpected location it just gave up. The new (as of 
> today) algorithm waits until the cursor seems to have stopped moving.

This seems to work now.

Many thanks,

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Lee Maschmeyer

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