[BRLTTY] Autorepeat of panning.

[Adrian P. van Bloois]

* El Tue, Oct 03, 2006 at 11:01:19PM -0400, escribiste:
> Due to the two possibilities I've already raised, i.e. reading literary text
> (which tends to wrap and doesn't care much about line boundaries), and
> accommodating the habits of users of other screen readers which lack
> functionality (like the skipping of blank windows):
> 
> And for a few other reasons, i.e. users of small (8, 18, 20, 24) displays would
> have a harder time getting to where they want to go without it, there's no need
> to offer less functionality than what's already built into some pieces of
> existing hardware, brltty's reputation shouldn't suffer even due to uninformed
> user perception, and it isn't much code anyway:
> 
> Revision 2467 of brltty now contains an "Autorepeat Panning" preference which
> defaults to "no". Feel free to upgrade, turn it on, and let us know if it works
> as expected or what's wrong with it.
Can't you make it configurable in the configure script?
That would help.
I'm using an alternative for brltty just for this reason.

> 
> I hope, at the very least, that recent discussion on this topic has helped to
> educate people about other, potentially better, ways of doing things, and about
> brltty's "Skip Blank Windows" feature.
> 
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