[BRLTTY] Terminal Type for Braille Edge connected via BRLTTY

Kevin Fjelsted kfjelsted at gmail.com
Fri Sep 2 07:00:38 EDT 2016


How is it that the Edge arrows work correctly in Nano or other editors then? Also the cursor  routing keys work.
How do we make an application aware of these? Is this the BRLTTY-API that you previously referred to?
Is there doc on this?

> On Sep 2, 2016, at 5:49 AM, Dave Mielke <dave at mielke.cc> wrote:
> 
> [quoted lines by Kevin Fjelsted on 2016/09/02 at 05:40 -0500]
> 
>>> Which keys are you using for the up and down arrows when you have a braille 
>>> keyboard?
>> 
>> I have tried both sets of up and down arrows. 
> 
> That's the problem. Those aren't the same as keyboard arrow keys.
> 
>> The Edge arrows are being ignored in our program and we get no characters back 
>> from them when they are pressed.
> 
> That's because they aren't keyboard keys. Those keys are Braille Edge 
> navigation keys. For the keyboard arrows, use:
> 
>   left:  Space+Dot3
>   Right: Space+Dot6
>   Up:    Space+Dot1
>   Down:  Space+Dot4
> 
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