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

[Sébastien Hinderer]

Regarding how additional spaces are handeld, I'd like to ask that there
is a way to preserve spaces at the beginning or end of fragments when
they are put into the clipboard. Fro isntance. If one _adds_ something
to the clipboard, then if this addition starts with a space I'd like
this one to be preserved because it means I am trying to accumulate
words. Or maybe there would be a mode where one can say that we
accumulate words. I already mentionned that I use that to accumulate
file names. At the moment I need to explicitly include spaces but I'd
like this to be understood somehow. Or am I asking for something that
even clipboard for sighted users do not provide?

Seb.

Samuel Thibault (2026/02/08 10:34 +0100):
> Hello,
>
> Eric Scheibler, le dim. 08 févr. 2026 09:53:24 +0100, a ecrit:
> > I select text with the routing keys of my braille device and although I choose the exact start char, I'm lazy with
> > the end char if it's the last on a line. Then I just click on a routing key to the right (maybe 5, maybe 10 chars after
> > the last char I want to select). And only then the space is added,
>
> Ok, thanks for checking.
>
> 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.
>
> Samuel
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