[BRLTTY] Attribute cursor.

Mario Lang mlang at delysid.org
Tue Mar 17 14:06:40 EDT 2009


Dave Mielke <dave at mielke.cc> writes:

> So let's design what brltty should support. Should we go the sbl route and
> have program profiles and attempt to figure out which program is
> currently running?  Another possibility is to have a routing key
> based command which instructs brltty to use the attributes of the
> selected character when searching for an attribute cursor. Are there
> any other alternatives to consider?

While this alternative sounds simple and logical, I see a fundamental
flaw with it: The user has to find the soft cursor first.  While it
is surely a good quick fix, I think there should be the ability to save
this acquired information somewhere, which leads us back to profiles IMHO.

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