[BRLTTY] Feature request: configurable prompt pattern

2018-03-13 Thread Aura Kelloniemi
Hi I'm missing a feature which would allow me to define a regular expression pattern that would be matched to decide what content on screen is a prompt and what is not for NXPROMPT/PRPROMPT commands. This would most likely be defined in brltty.conf. Currently I think that when using the above men

Re: [BRLTTY] Feature request: configurable prompt pattern

2018-03-13 Thread Dave Mielke
[quoted lines by Aura Kelloniemi on 2018/03/13 at 13:49 +0200] >I'm missing a feature which would allow me to define a regular expression >pattern that would be matched to decide what content on screen is a prompt and >what is not for NXPROMPT/PRPROMPT commands. This would most likely be >defined

Re: [BRLTTY] Feature request: configurable prompt pattern

2018-03-13 Thread Aura Kelloniemi
Hello, Dave Mielke writes: > [quoted lines by Aura Kelloniemi on 2018/03/13 at 13:49 +0200] > >I'm missing a feature which would allow me to define a regular expression > >pattern that would be matched to decide what content on screen is a prompt > >and > >what is not for NXPROMPT/PRPROMPT

Re: [BRLTTY] Feature request: configurable prompt pattern

2018-03-13 Thread Dave Mielke
[quoted lines by Aura Kelloniemi on 2018/03/13 at 14:59 +0200] > > That wouldn't match current behaviour at all. In fact, it'd match any line > > at > > all whose first space isn't in column 1. Current behaviour considers the > > content of the current line in order to know exactly what to matc

Re: [BRLTTY] Feature request: configurable prompt pattern

2018-03-13 Thread Aura Kelloniemi
Aura Kelloniemi writes: > What I would want to have is a Perl-style (or sed-style) regex substitution, > where the original string is the current line. Like this: > s/^([^ ]+ ).*/\1/ > Then the result of the substitution is compared to screen contents to find > other prompts. No, even that

Re: [BRLTTY] Feature request: configurable prompt pattern

2018-03-13 Thread Nicolas Pitre
On Tue, 13 Mar 2018, Dave Mielke wrote: > [quoted lines by Aura Kelloniemi on 2018/03/13 at 14:59 +0200] > > > > Maybe your shell prompt looks like that, but, since a shell's prompt is > > > configurable, I'm sure it's far from a common case. Would we really want > > > every > > > single brltt