[BRLTTY] Permanent line marks

[Eric Scheibler]

Dave Mielke <dave at mielke.cc> schrieb am 22.12.2013, 14:39 -0500:
>What about having a place in the menu to pick the brltty.conf file so you don't 
>need to restart brltty?

Yes, sounds good.

>>>Another alternative might be to just make all marks persistent. If we do that, 
>>>should they be saved immediately, should they be only saved when the 
>>>preferences are saved, or when? Also, would we then need a delete mark command?
>>
>>Depends how others use the marks. Maybe the best solution for that is: don't touch the currently
>>implemented SETMARK and GOTOMARK functions but create the following new ones:
>>1. Make all marks permanent. This function saves all currently set marks to disk.
>>2. Reset all marks. Here all marks are set to line one again.
>>If you don't want to save the marks nothing changes for you. But I can mark my wished lines one by
>>one with the Capslock+ShiftLeft+!One-!Four shortcut and when I'am satisfied I make them permanent.
>
>But is there any harm in SETMARK just saving them?

I don't think so. But then we need a reset function which sets all marks to the first line again.

Cheers
Eric