[BRLTTY] brltty and emacs

[Dominique Asselineau]

Elias Oltmanns wrote on Sat, Jan 26, 2013 at 08:32:40PM +0100
> (2013-01-26) "Rob Hudson" <captinlogic at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Is there anything I should be aware of when using BRLTTY and Emacs?
> > Any conflicts or something?
> 
> The only thing I'm aware of is the cursor routing issue which, as I
> gather, has been fixed in the latest release of brltty. Mind you, it's
> not directly related to emacs but that is where it can get particularly
> annoying.
> 
> Of course, there are various tweaks that you may or may not find
> convenient when using emacs with brltty. For instance, I like to hide
> the menu bar so, when I press ???go to beginning of top line???, I
> immediately have valuable information on my display. Also, when pressing
> the ???page down??? key, emacs will show the last two lines of the previous
> screen as the first two lines of the current one for context. 

If the cursor is placed on the one of the two last lines, the <page-down>
leaves the cursor at the same position.  It may be usefull.

dom

> As a
> braille terminal user, I find it more convenient to have no context
> lines. You can achieve both of this by adding the following to your
> .emacs file:
> 
> (setq menu-bar-mode nil
>       next-screen-context-lines 0)
> 
> Depending on how much you are going to use emacs and what for, other
> adjustments may be appropriate too. For instance, I use gnus for email
> and news and I changed the default window configuration in such a way
> that the current article is presented *above* the summary buffer and
> occupies a bigger part of the screen. But you really have to figure out
> yourself what suits your needs.
> 
> Hope that helps,
> 
> Elias
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