[BRLTTY] BrlAPI and contiguous displays

[Dave Mielke]

I have a plan (see next paragraph) which will resolve your problem in a very
simple way. My problem is that I don't want to implement it until 3.8 is out
as, at this point, I really want to ensure stability. I intend to release 3.8
as soon as Orca and LSR tell me that they're satisfied. I believe LSR has
already told me that, but an additional confirmation wouldn't hurt. Orca was
waiting on a Ubuntu issue which appears to have been resolved at this point.
Just to be sure, though, I need their final confirmation.

My plan is to have the driver advertise the display's full width and to behave
as though there are no status cells. The core would then have an option
(similar to the BrailleNote driver's statuscells= parameter) which would
allocate some of the text cells, only from the core's perspective, as status
cells. Then BrlAPI would automatically use all of the cells as text cells,
driver-specific code for this can be removed, displays with no status cells
could have some, etc.

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