[BRLTTY] Preserving presentation when copying to the clipboard

Nicolas Pitre nico at fluxnic.net
Tue Apr 1 16:30:44 UTC 2025


On Mon, 31 Mar 2025, Sébastien Hinderer wrote:

> Nicolas Pitre (2025/03/31 11:08 -0400):
> > On Sun, 30 Mar 2025, Dave Mielke wrote:
> > 
> > > Brltty monitors what's on the screen. It's totally unaware of whatever 
> > > escape sequences might've been sent to the terminal to produce that 
> > > content so bracketed paste can't be supported.
> > 
> > My understanding of bracketed paste is simply about surrounding the 
> > pasted content with some escape sequence that makes text editors to e.g. 
> > disable auto indentation during the paste. That's something BRLTTY could 
> > do.
> 
> It makes sense yes. Are we sure the editors would understand those even
> on the Linux console?

tmux, weechat, emacs and other apps that are bracketed paste aware do 
ultimately execute through the Linux console.


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