[BRLTTY] Losing cursor in the latest versions from SVN

Mario Lang mlang at delysid.org
Fri Nov 28 12:22:41 EST 2008


Dave Mielke <dave at mielke.cc> writes:

> [quoted lines by Mario Lang on 2008/11/28 at 16:29 +0100]
>
>>I can confirm this one, just happened to me.  When it happened,
>>I just pressed return to open a mail folder in Gnus, which basically
>>means the cursor jumps down to the last line on the screen (since there is
>>prompt).  The jump is like from line 6 to line 50.
>
> Did you happen to check your status cells to see where brltty thought the 
> cursor was?
No :-(.

> Did you try entering further input to see if the cursor would eventually
> come back into view?

Yes, the cursor is visible and can also be navigated into view.
Its really like cursor tracking got turned off, also in other consoles.

> My guess is that the toggles are okay and it's just that the cursor is, for 
> whatever reason, believed to have gone out of range.
Maybe, but it hasn't.  I can navigate the window to the cursor if
I know where it is.

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