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

Nicolas Pitre nico at fluxnic.net
Mon Mar 19 19:37:28 EDT 2012


On Mon, 19 Mar 2012, Dave Mielke wrote:

> [quoted lines by Shérab on 2012/03/19 at 21:52 +0100]
> 
> >Would it make sense tomodify the algorithm in the following way: for the
> >first few vertical/horizontal motions, wait a bit longer in case the
> >cursor moves temporaily. If that does not occur, then do the following
> >motions faster. Is it possible for brltty to detect these temporary
> >motions at all ?
> 
> No, it's not. That's the problem.

Remember that I added poll()/select() support to the /dev/vcsa devices 
in the kernel.  BRLTTY could take advantage of it not to wait longer 
than necessary in order to notice any cursor movement when they occur.


Nicolas


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