[quoted lines by Aura Kelloniemi on 2018/11/26 at 16:59 +0200] >I'm not missing the old behaviour.
How many patterns have you, at this point, written? If you send them to me then I could include them in brltty.conf as commented out examples. By the way: brltty.conf is UTF-8 encoded so you can, for example, use literal Greek letters (I think you mentioned Gamma). They'll work since pcre2 is being used. For those who don't have pcre2 (during configure), it falls back to pcre(1). >I guess somebody could have use for the combination of the prompt finding >stretegies. Then there probably should be an option like "Fallback to default >prompt matching when regex fails". To me enabling such a thing would cause >confusion. there could be an option, but the question still is what shuld it default to. I have two reasons for believing that it should default to enabled. They both boil down to the importance I place on coding for average users who, I believe, want to place much more attention on their jobs than on the intracacies of interesting features of base applications. First: A power user would know to turn it off if that's what he/she really wants whereas a regular user might just add a pattern or two for special cases and assume that, beyond those patterns, the original algorithm still works. Second: The history of brltty, which has served it well, is that new features have been added without upsetting old ones. So, now we can add prompt patterns while the original behaviour still does work. The same kind of thinking dictates that, if we add an option for enabling the original algorithm, then it should default to on. I really do believe that it's easy for experts to get all caught up in theory while forgetting about practce. If the option deaults to on then an expert who wants it off would say "oh, okay" and turn it off. If, however, it defaults to off then I believe it could easily cause an average user to wonder what went wrong. Si here's a practical question: Has the fact that the original algorithm still works actually caused you a problem? -- I believe the Bible to be the very Word of God: http://Mielke.cc/bible/ Dave Mielke | 2213 Fox Crescent | WebHome: http://Mielke.cc/ EMail: [email protected] | Ottawa, Ontario | Twitter: @Dave_Mielke Phone: +1 613 726 0014 | Canada K2A 1H7 | _______________________________________________ This message was sent via the BRLTTY mailing list. To post a message, send an e-mail to: [email protected] For general information, go to: http://brltty.app/mailman/listinfo/brltty
