[BRLTTY] BrlAPI Raw key code mode?
Mario Lang
mlang at delysid.org
Fri Jul 28 04:14:57 EDT 2017
Dave Mielke <dave at mielke.cc> writes:
> [quoted lines by Mario Lang on 2017/07/28 at 09:03 +0200]
>
>>I would even go as far as dropping the exception for BRL_SWITCHVT and similar.
>>After all, the client has just requested raw keycodes, they should know what
>>they are doing in that particular situation.
>
> Is raw mode a special kind of key, i.e. does it share the value space for the
> rest of what can be returned?
I am not sure, but I am guessing no. At least what I am seeing is, that
no commands whatsoever arrive if I have selected "raw keycode"
mode. Which makes sense, since you probably wouldn't be able to
differentiate commands and raw keycodes returned from brlapi__readKey
anyway?
> If it occupies its own value space then I'd argue that the command
> exception list is, in fact, entirely an error in raw mode.
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