On Thu, 15 Jun 2017, Dave Mielke wrote: > [quoted lines by Sebastian Humenda on 2017/06/15 at 14:51 +0200] > > >Imagine I'm in Vim and typing a text. Then I hit Caps+t the time is > >displayed. > >After I have read the time, I start typing again, but the message remains. > >This means that I don't see what is happening at the moment. I could easily > >miss updates on the screen and similar. This forces me to always press a > >routing key to get back the on-screen text. Previously, a screen update > >would > >discard the message. While I understand the reasoning, I think it makes > >sense > >to discard message, if the users starts typing characters. In this case, we > >can be sure that the message is not wanted anymore. > > Thanks. This example helps a lot. What you're really asking for is that a > change to the screen dismisses the message. It can't be related to the typing > because, were you not using a keyboard table, brltty wouldn't even be aware > of > your typing. I think your request makes sense even if a keyboard table isn't > being used.
I disagree. Screen changes happen all the time at random moments. I would be very upset if I was in the middle of reading the time provided by brltty and it gets pulled away when I'm in halfway through it. Detecting key presses is certainly a good signal to use for discarding messages. In the absence of a keyboard table then a new key binding for the purpose of discarding messages in a message context could be defined. In such a context the up and down navigation keys could be used. Nicolas _______________________________________________ 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.com/mailman/listinfo/brltty
