[BRLTTY] Speak indentation

[Nicolas Pitre]

On Mon, 10 Sep 2018, Sebastian Humenda wrote:

> 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.

You should fix this issue at the editor level instead. For example, 
here's how you would do with vi:

https://vi.stackexchange.com/questions/422/displaying-tabs-as-characters

Several other sources show how to do it if your editor is emacs.

Incidentally, this has nothing to do with the use of a braille display. 
Sighted people have the same issue.


Nicolas