[BRLTTY] SPEAK_NEXT_WORD and word boundaries in Debian Trixie

[Dave Mielke]

[quoted lines by Eric Scheibler on 2026/01/03 at 10:07 +0100]

>My shell (zsh) offers the following setting in its config file:
>
>    # define, which non alphanumeric characters should contain to a word
>    WORDCHARS='*?_-.[]~=&;!#$%^(){}<>'

To me, this is a problem as a user may wish to switch which characters are included depending on what he's doing, i.e. is he reading/editing text or code. Let's just look, for examle, at the parentheses. While it may make sense to include parentheses for text, doing that might be awkward for code. A common way to write code, for example, is "name(arg1, arg2)". The first word would be "name(arg1," when it'd probably be better to slpit that into three words - "name", "(", "arg1,".

And, if he wants to change between different character sets then he'd need to restart brltty with different options.

>I'm not sure what you mean with a long press. 

Holding the key combination for at least a half a second (the duration is configurable).

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