[BRLTTY] BRLTTY, Ncurses and Cursor Tracking

[S. Massy]

On Tue, Feb 09, 2016 at 10:34:21AM -0500, Dave Mielke wrote:
> [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.
Thanks; that's probably the right place to look. I'll investigate and
confirm for the archives.
Regards,
S.M.
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