[BRLTTY] BrlAPI Raw key code mode?
Shérab
Sebastien.Hinderer at ens-lyon.org
Wed Aug 23 18:08:49 EDT 2017
Dave Mielke (2017/08/23 17:33 -0400):
> [quoted lines by Shérab on 2017/08/23 at 22:08 +0200]
>
> Hi:
>
> >Couldn't we imagine that the clients define command groups and commands by
> >specifying their names and numerical values and then there could be
> >tables similar to the core ones mapping braille keys to these
> >client-defined commands?
>
> Of course, we can imagine anything we want. Some layer needs to own the value
> space, though.
You mean to avoid collisions, i.e. one number having two meanings
depending who interprets it?
I thought this problem wouldn't exist because ta one moment, only one
value space is "active".
> If we want to have a base set of common commands then the core
> needs to own the value space.
Sure.
> If we don't care then the client can own it. All
> I'm saying is that I think it's wrong to design a paradigm that ends up with a
> needlessly huge amount of tables as that'll very quickly become totally
> unmanageable.
Sure. I guess in practice there won't be that many tables but I can't be
sure.
Shérab.
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