[BRLTTY] Speak indentation

[Sebastian Humenda]

Hi

Nicolas Pitre schrieb am 09.09.2018, 18:02 -0400:
>On Sun, 9 Sep 2018, Sebastian Humenda wrote:
>> Dave Mielke schrieb am 09.09.2018, 13:58 -0400:
>> >[quoted lines by Sebastian Humenda on 2018/09/09 at 19:28 +0200]
>> >>I would like to request a functionality that, if switched on, would the number
>> >>and kind of indentation when changing the current line. For instance "eight
>> >>spaces" or "three tabs". 
>> >What if it's a mixture like: 2 spaces, 3 tabs, 5 spaces
>> Then I think this needs to be announced.
>
>BRLTTY has no access to that information.  Tabs are always expanded into 
>spaces on the screen and there is no way to tell if some indentation is 
>made of spaces or tabs at that level. Only your text editor knows that.
I see. It's a pitty, but I don't mind too much, I happen to work with spaces 98
% of the time anyway.

Cheers
Sebastian
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