[BRLTTY] an auto-scroll mode

[Mario Lang]

covici at ccs.covici.com writes:

> That would work, the pan right should do it when it reaches a new line.
> Down arrow should be hit in that mode. And vis versa for the pan left.

I usually use the down/up arrow bindings on most display, when I reach
the end of the line, instead of pan right, to automatically scroll the
window in question.  It is just a little bit of habit, and achieves the
same effect.

>
> Dave Mielke <dave at mielke.cc> wrote:
>
>> [quoted lines by covici at ccs.covici.com on 2014/11/01 at 20:04 -0400]
>> 
>> >I wonder how difficult it would be to have an auto-scroll mode, so
>> >that when lines change, the cursor is automatically routed to the
>> >beginning of the line.  We have this in Window-eyes and it works quite
>> >well, it only scrolls at the beginning of each line, but it relieves the
>> >necessity of having to do page up and down at the end of the screen.  I
>> >know there are complications, but I would like some discussion of such a
>> >feature.
>> 
>> Are you wanting exactly what happens when the up/down arrow keys are pressed on 
>> the keyboard?
>> 
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