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

Samuel Thibault samuel.thibault at ens-lyon.org
Sun Feb 8 20:19:03 UTC 2026


Dave Mielke, le dim. 08 févr. 2026 13:41:28 -0500, a ecrit:
> [quoted lines by Samuel Thibault on 2026/02/08 at 10:34 +0100]
> 
> >But then the question still holds: why do we have such a space when
> >clicking beyond the end of the line. When pasting with the brltty
> >command we do not have the extra space. I have checked by hand with
> >brlapi, the space is already there, it is not introduced by xbrlapi.
> >I see in cpbPaste that there is special handling for trailing spaces, to
> >it seems like the brltty paste command compensates for the additional
> >space, thus the behavior difference.
> 
> He probably didn't have a full-length line so clicking to the right of the end of the line would've included a single space after the last thing on the line.

Should the clipboard preference be made to ignore that trailing space
then? But why introducing it in the first place, then?

Samuel


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