[BRLTTY] brltty-6.8

[Dave Mielke]

[quoted lines by Sébastien Hinderer on 2025/05/28 at 14:52 +0200]

>When the last line of the terminal is reached, it gets spoken, too.
>
>But if one arrows down once more, then allthe text will shift so that
>line 26 of the file will be displayed on line 25 of the terminal,
>assuming no status bar or so.
>
>At this stage the expected behaviour (I think! ) is that this line gets
>spoken, too.
>
>The behaviour I observe, though, is that BRLTTY does not read this line
>and none of those reached by continuing to scroll down with the down
>arrow key.

It's because brltty can't tell that it's a new line because the physical cursor position hasn't changed. The workaround for this is to tell the editor to scroll vertically by at least two lines at a time.

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