[BRLTTY] SPEAK_NEXT_WORD and word boundaries in Debian Trixie

[Dave Mielke]

[quoted lines by Eric Scheibler on 2026/01/19 at 12:43 +0100]

>Btw: The file Tools/reqpkgs.d/debian lists all packages, which are needed to compile Brltty under Debian. But at least
>Debian Trixie (stable) doesn't contain the package libpcre3-dev. I removed / didn't install it and the build went
>well anyway. Just so you know.

Thanks. Rather than removing it, it probably needs to be replaced by some other package. I'll ask around.

>I think, 7, 8 and 9 would be more intuitive / better to reach. 

Okay, I'll change that.

>Anyway I find it more convenient to keep both part and word on the same key and add ShiftLeft instead like this:

The keyboard subtable is shared so we'd need to pick such a key for the keypad table as well. Maybe kpDot.

>And we should keep the laptop keytable bindings "shift+arrow_left" and "shift+arrow_right" in mind - currently they
>still point to the word commands.

Should they be removed?

What do you think about adding a Preferences Menu setting to swap the word commands? For example, we could have Primary Word Navigation which could be set to either Partial or Full. Maybe someone has a better idea for these names.

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