[BRLTTY] Improving the speech support of brltty

Eric Scheibler email at eric-scheibler.de
Wed Apr 25 21:32:24 EDT 2012


Dave Mielke wrote:
> The easiest is for brltty's menu to have a set of choices - not a list of 
> characters. Which choices should be offered?

Ok, then maybe it's possible to offer the following characters:
1. spaces
2. /
3. .
4. -
Each char with an on/off switch. So I can choose, which combination of
delimiters I want. If you don't like this, offer the following 3 groups:
1. only spaces
2. spaces and /
3. spaces, / and .
Maybe you also could import it from the config file. Where the user can
specify the delimiters.

Please also consider this idea: the right behavior in vim. Just take the
following line as an example:
/etc/brltty.conf brltty config file
There are two possible ways to navigate word-by-word:
1. in insert mode it's the same like above, so read the line and stop
near the self defined delimiters.
2. It would be cool, if you also could adapt the word-by-word navigation
in the command mode. That means typing "w" with the cursor on position
one moves it to position 2 and speaks "etc" then to position 5 and
speaks "/" then to pos 6 and speaks "brltty" and so on. The same with
the bigword movements "W" and "B". I don't know how difficult this
implementation is and if it's also adaptable for other text editors than
vi/vim but for me it would be a very useful feature.

Dave Mielke wrote:
> Should left/right speech navigation automatically wrap to the end/beginning of 
> the previous/next line? If yes, what should happen, if anything, when it wraps?

I think so. Optional you can play a sound then it wraps on the new line.

Regards
Eric


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