[BRLTTY] Preserving presentation when copying to the clipboard

Sébastien Hinderer Sebastien.Hinderer at ens-lyon.org
Mon Mar 31 20:08:44 UTC 2025


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?

Seb.


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