[BRLTTY] Speak indentation

Nicolas Pitre nico at fluxnic.net
Fri Sep 14 10:47:37 EDT 2018


On Fri, 14 Sep 2018, Sebastian Humenda wrote:

> Hi all
> 
> Nicolas Pitre schrieb am 11.09.2018, 11:50 -0400:
> >On Tue, 11 Sep 2018, Dave Mielke wrote:
> >
> >> [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. 
> >> 
> >> What about when line numbering is turned on? In that case, the calculated
> >> indentation would be that of the line number - not of the text.
> >> 
> >> Likewise, what about when on a wrapped segment of a long line?
> >
> >Editors have configurations to deal with that themselves. I don't think 
> >it is appropriate for BRLTTY to try to interpret such things.
> I think you are misunderstanding me in this regard. As a speech-only user, you
> need a way to figure out *while reading code* to what depth your code is
> indented. The editor won't help you there, because it is BRLTTY doing the screen
> reading.

OK. That's a different issue though. The screen reader won't tell you if 
that indentation is made of spaces or tabs.


Nicolas


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