Elias Oltmanns wrote on Sat, Jan 26, 2013 at 08:32:40PM +0100 > (2013-01-26) "Rob Hudson" <[email protected]> wrote: > > Is there anything I should be aware of when using BRLTTY and Emacs? > > Any conflicts or something? > > The only thing I'm aware of is the cursor routing issue which, as I > gather, has been fixed in the latest release of brltty. Mind you, it's > not directly related to emacs but that is where it can get particularly > annoying. > > Of course, there are various tweaks that you may or may not find > convenient when using emacs with brltty. For instance, I like to hide > the menu bar so, when I press ???go to beginning of top line???, I > immediately have valuable information on my display. Also, when pressing > the ???page down??? key, emacs will show the last two lines of the previous > screen as the first two lines of the current one for context.
If the cursor is placed on the one of the two last lines, the <page-down> leaves the cursor at the same position. It may be usefull. dom > As a > braille terminal user, I find it more convenient to have no context > lines. You can achieve both of this by adding the following to your > .emacs file: > > (setq menu-bar-mode nil > next-screen-context-lines 0) > > Depending on how much you are going to use emacs and what for, other > adjustments may be appropriate too. For instance, I use gnus for email > and news and I changed the default window configuration in such a way > that the current article is presented *above* the summary buffer and > occupies a bigger part of the screen. But you really have to figure out > yourself what suits your needs. > > Hope that helps, > > Elias > _______________________________________________ > 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://mielke.cc/mailman/listinfo/brltty -- _______________________________________________ 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://mielke.cc/mailman/listinfo/brltty
