[BRLTTY] Skip identical blank lines setting seems to impact Orca

[Dave Mielke]

[quoted lines by Chevelle on 2026/02/23 at 12:51 -0500]

>When 'skip identical blank lines' is set to yes:
>
>LNUP becomes PRDIFLN
>LNDN becomes NXDIFLN
>I don't think Orca knows about this, so the up and down buttons don't work. 
>What is the best way to handle this.  Can Orca query the setting of 'skip
>identical blank lines', or map both sets of keys, or should something be
>changed in Brltty?

Well, brltty is saying which function is needed which, I think, is what it should be doing. My personal opinion is that Orca should implement these functions.

>I'm not sure if other Brltty settings can impact Orca?

Skip Blank Braille Windows does the same thing, i.e. it swaps command pairs.

By the way: It wouldn't be just Orca - it'd be any BrlAPI client.

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