[BRLTTY] Copying over terminal boundaries

Dave Mielke dave at mielke.cc
Wed Jan 6 08:38:49 EST 2010


[quoted lines by Teemu M Kuusisto on 2010/01/06 at 14:22 +0200]

>My console's height is 64 lines and width is 128 characters. The
>simplest way to copy a couple of lines is to mark the begin position
>to leftmost character in the first line and then place the end
>position somewhere out of the real terminal in the last line
>(character position > 128). That was possible with an older BRLTTY
>version, but with 4.0 it is not allowed any more. The result of this
>change is that I have to place the end position exactly to the 128th
>character when I want lines to be copied
>completely - not so easy way.

You're probably doing a rectangular cut. I think it'll work properly if you do 
a linear cut.

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