[BRLTTY] Variable status cell displays and BrlAPI

Dave Mielke dave at mielke.cc
Fri Oct 27 04:25:42 EDT 2006


[quoted lines by Samuel Thibault on 2006/10/27 at 10:18 +0200]

>I'd say the API shouldn't decide anything and just let the application
>decide.  An application may very well want to use 9 status cells
>(because they're all useful) and 79 display cells (which is fine when
>the text is not terminal-related).

Okay ... Now for the hardest part of the design. What do we call the option? We
could go with --status-cells=, but the short options -s and -S are both already
used. :-(

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