[BRLTTY] SPEAK_NEXT_WORD and word boundaries in Debian Trixie

[Eric Scheibler]

Moin Dave,

Dave Mielke <Dave at mielke.cc> schrieb am 16.01.2026,  7:07 -0500:
> My preference is for two sets of commands - one for the 6.7 style words and the other for the 6.5 style words. My problem is that I don't like the term "big word". One of them is a "word" and the other is a what?

Ok, let's keep it simple and just use the 6.5 and 6.7 words without delimiter lists. Fine with me.

Unfortunately I also can't come up with any better terms... word vs.:

- full word
- extended word
- whitespace word

What about:

- Tab+l:        SPEAK_NEXT_WORD             Brltty 6.5 word
- CTRL+Tab+l:   SPEAK_NEXT_WHITESPACE_WORD  Brltty 6.7 word

It's reasonably self-explanatory, if nothing else.

> Yes, by autorepeat I mean that if you hold the key combination it repeats automatically. So, just to confirm, you'd like to keep next/previous word autorepeat?

Yes. Just use/keep its current behavior: If I press Tab+j/l and hold it, the speech cursor walks through previous/next
words until I stop. Same for chars and lines.

At least I like it this way and I think that works well for both (short and long words).

Cheers
Eric