[BRLTTY] BRLTTY, Ncurses and Cursor Tracking

[Dave Mielke]

[quoted lines by S. Massy on 2016/02/08 at 18:20 -0500]

>Some applications employing the ncurses library seem to play very nicely
>with BRLTTy whilst others do not. The main problem usually stems from
>poor or no cursor tracking. Does anybody on this list know what factor
>is into play here? What do you usually look for when trying to make an
>ncurses interface more accessible?

Brltty tracks where the cursor is. Some programs don't take care of ensuring 
that the cursor is placed on the current item. They use visual highlighting for 
that, which brltty doesn't yet track. Some programs have an option, e.g. lynx 
has -show-curosr, that instructs them to place the cursor on the current item.

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