[BRLTTY] Cursor routing appears to fail with 4.3 in Lynx?

S. Massy lists at wolfdream.ca
Sun Mar 18 09:28:21 EDT 2012


On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 01:30:05PM +0100, Mario Lang wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> I have just recently noticed that cursor routing does not work as
> expected in simple text entry fields in Lynx with brltty 4.3 anymore.
> It fails in the simplest case, where the cursor is already on the line
> it should go to.  If it is just supposed to move a few characters (say
> 10), it will 90% of the time immediately play the failure tune and not
> move a single characters.  Sometimes it works as expected, but the
> success rate is very low.
> 
> Anyone seen similar behaviour?  I remember we changed something about
I just double checked and couldn't reproduce this in simple cases. What
does happen, but really isn't new, is that brltty gets confused when
input text is longer than the displayed field and routing causes the
text to scroll, at which point behaviour indeed becomes unpredictable. 

HTH,
S.M.


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