[BRLTTY] Chords in brlapi

[Dave Mielke]

[quoted lines by Peter Nilsson Lundblad on 2014/02/11 at 14:17 -0800]

>I'd like to get access to chords (space plus dots) thought brlapi.
>I am setting the retaindots flag to yes in the api parameters and I
>get other dot combinations though the BRLAPI_KEY_CMD_PASSDOTS command.
>I had the impression that the BRLAPI_DOTC flag would be set in the
>argumets bits for chords, but that's not what I am seeing.

Your impression is correct except that this feature isn't working very well 
anymore. It's really an old feature which dates back to before key tables. It 
made sense, then, since there needed to be a way to tell the drivers to return 
the space bar (chord key).

These days, however, with key tables, this feature really doesn't make all that 
much sense anymore as it has everything to do with hard-coded key bindings. 
Commands, these days, should be defined in key tables. I'm almost of the 
opinion that it's time to fully remove the retainDots feature. Is there an 
actual case which would justify its revival?

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