[BRLTTY] SPEAK_NEXT_WORD and word boundaries in Debian Trixie

[Dave Mielke]

[quoted lines by Eric Scheibler on 2026/01/02 at 09:18 +0100]

>I would like to restore the previous behavior. But I'm not sure which component is responsible for this change. Which
>setting does Brltty use to know, what defines a word boundary? Could you point me in the right direction please?

Okay, I looked back at the original code. It treated characters typical of an identifier (letters, decimal digits, and an underscore) as a word and would skip over any group of those. For any non-identifier character it'd go one character at a time.

We could have a setting to switch between these two ways. If we go that route then we could add even more ways to define what a word is.

Another approach would be to have two sets of commands. In other words, a regular press would do it the old way and a long press would do it the new way (i.e. skip all the way to a whitespace boundary). With this approach we could still add a setting to decide which one is the regular press and which one is the lnng press.

What do you (and anyone else) think?

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