[BRLTTY] xbrlapi: Minor clipboard issues and one small feature request

Samuel Thibault samuel.thibault at ens-lyon.org
Fri Feb 6 19:57:33 UTC 2026


Hello,

Dave Mielke, le ven. 06 févr. 2026 14:53:31 -0500, a ecrit:
> [quoted lines by Brian Buhrow on 2026/02/06 at 09:07 -0800]
> 
> >We could strip line feeds from the contents of the cut buffer for purposes
> >of displaying it on the braille display, replacing them with a marker,
> >like, " $l " to indicate a line break.  However, this hack assumes there is
> >no limit to the length of the line in the message buffer.
> 
> There's no limit to the length of the clipboard content and there's also no limit to the length of a message.

There is currently a limit in the brlapi parameters content, related to
the maximum packet size in the protocol, currently set to 4096.

Is that the limit you are encountering? (that's two full screens of
text...)

Samuel


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