[BRLTTY] skipping broken cells

[Dave Mielke]

[quoted lines by Aura Kelloniemi on 2019/05/14 at 16:52 +0300]

>Currently I'm lucky not to have a single broken dot in my display, but I have
>another issue which could potentially be solved by this feature. When the
>battery of my Focus Blue is low (<=10%), the firmware writes a status
>indicator at the righthand side of my display. This indicator cannot be
>disabled and it is shown all the time. The firmware uses dots 7 and 8 in this
>indicator (which is 1-5 cells wide, depending on the battery status).
>Unfortunately I use a braille table which extensively uses dots 7 and 8, so
>the battery status indicator completely garbles all characters in the last
>five cells. Currently I work around this issue by setting Window overlap to
>the width of the status indicator whenever this problem appears. But I would
>prefer to have those cells be filled with the pattern ⣿ (all dots up). This
>would be much less confusing than having garbled text at the end of each
>braille window. 

Thinking about this issue some more, I think there's something you can do right
now that'd even make practical use of those cells. Have a look at the status
cells section of the menu. You can reserve those cells to be status cells, and
can even select what's to be presented.

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