[BRLTTY] gotoline for ht driver

[Mario Lang]

Dave Mielke <dave at mielke.cc> writes:

>>This is pretty useful!  However, I'd like to make the second
>>gotoline do the reverse, but for that, I need the number of rows of
>>the current screen.  Can a driver retrieve that easily?  I mean, the
>>second definition should gotoline from the bottom of the screen.
>
> Did you know about the two flags that it accepts, i.e. BRL_FLG_LINE_TOLEFT
> and BRL_FLG_LINE_SCALED? BRL_FLG_LINE_TOLEFT moves to the left end
> of the selected line. BRL_FLG_LINE_SCALED makes the routing keys
> like a scroll bar.
Aha!  No, I did not know about these.

> What about adding a third flag, e.g. BRL_FLG_LINE_BOTTOM, which would do what
> you're looking for?

Sounds like exactly what we need here.  BRL_FLG_LINE_SCALED would maybe
be a workable alternative too, but I kind of like the idea that each
routing key from left/right corresponds to one line from top/bottom...

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CYa,
  Mario