[BRLTTY] Smart Copy (Was: Re: xbrlapi: Minor clipboard issues and one small feature) request

[Dave Mielke]

[quoted lines by Sébastien Hinderer on 2026/02/21 at 21:28 +0100]

>Non it's not equally hard at all! don't you receive e-mials with lengthy
>URLs? When that happens, of course you know where the URL starts and
>it's actually how you know it's a URL. The only problem then is to find
>where it ends!

But that works already. Why should we restrict it to that? Why not let it also work from somewhere in the middle in case finding the start is hard?

>I got one of those e-mails not later than today. It was from a medical
>lab to let me download the results of blood exams I did. It said
>something like: Download your results at https//followed by maybe three
>lines of the URL, and here I am speaking about 3 lines of 240 characters
>each. So it's super easy to see where the URL starts and not at all to
>find where it ends. So yes I think  there should be consistency here or
>that, at least, it wouldn't hurt.

Sure, and I've also had cases where the start isn't obvious.

>Regarding the manual, I didn't realise you were not comfortable with the
>format. Which I can understand, though.

It isn't that I'm not comfortable with it - it's that I don't like it. Those aren't the same things.

>If the whole documentation should become something else, both int erms
>of format and in temrs of structure, whatis it that you'd find easier to
>maintain?

I don't know and, quite frankly, I'm not worried about it. Maybe I should be, but I'm not.

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