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

[Sébastien Hinderer]

Hi,

Dave Mielke (2026/02/12 13:35 -0500):
> [quoted lines by Sébastien Hinderer on 2026/02/11 at 17:10 +0100]
>
> >That works indeed, thanks! I seemed to remeber that it didn't. So either
> >I did something the wrong way when I tried, or perhaps could it be that
> >there was a bug that has since been fixed?
>
> It's possible that that was an intirim bug when we added the ability
> to copy from messages. I'm not sure. Anyway, what matters in the end
> is that it works now.

Agreed

> >Going a bit further: I think I'd still find it very useful to be able to
> >pick words and accumulate them in the clipboard. Assuming this would be
> >of interest to others, would it require two new commands, one to to
> >start that mode, in addition to linear and rectangular, and one to add
> >by word. Does that look right?
>
> It kind of gets comlicated because I can envision people wanting
> multiule variants like should it or shouldn't it include punctuation.
> Also, let's say that you're wanting to copy file names from a listing
> and some of those names contain spaces.

I certainly agree that there is not going to be an ideal way. But isn't
it already the case that the proposed features do not cover all the
possible use-cases? The one I mention, for instance, is not covered yet and,
at the moment, that's it.

If we add a feature it won't cover all the use-cases either, but it may
still be an improvement over the current situation. Perhaps one could
use a regexp so that users can customize word boundaries as they need
them. Although I do realise that the regexp may vary between contexts.

One other workflow I find cumbersome at themoment is copying lenthgy
URLs. That, too, is something where I'd like to get more help from
BRLTTY. I realise a first implementation won't necessarily be perfect,
but I think it's by tseting that we can find out what we need; And even
if not perfect, if it could improve copying URLs at least in some cases,
I'd already be satisfaied.