[BRLTTY] Cut & paste

2008-02-05 Thread Lars Bjørndal
Hello, list! Featurerequest: I often use the cut & paste feature in BRLTTY, and it's a great function. However, sometimes I would like to paste on a command line a longer string like a URL or similar that is too long to fit into one line. What about adding a paste command that strips off the end o

Re: [BRLTTY] Cut & paste

2008-02-05 Thread Samuel Thibault
Lars Bjørndal, le Tue 05 Feb 2008 14:09:47 +0100, a écrit : > Featurerequest: I often use the cut & paste feature in BRLTTY, and > it's a great function. However, sometimes I would like to paste on a > command line a longer string like a URL or similar that is too long to > fit into one line. What

Re: [BRLTTY] Cut & paste

2008-02-05 Thread Samuel Thibault
Dave Mielke, le Tue 05 Feb 2008 09:12:48 -0500, a écrit : > [quoted lines by Samuel Thibault on 2008/02/05 at 13:44 +] > > >I wonder: shouldn't linear cut & paste always behave like this while > >rectangular shouldn't? > > How do other cut-and-paste facilities like gpm and X do it? They usua

Re: [BRLTTY] Cut & paste

2008-02-05 Thread Dave Mielke
[quoted lines by Samuel Thibault on 2008/02/05 at 13:44 +] >I wonder: shouldn't linear cut & paste always behave like this while >rectangular shouldn't? How do other cut-and-paste facilities like gpm and X do it? What should be done with leading blanks when lines are wrapped the way vim doe

Re: [BRLTTY] Cut & paste

2008-02-05 Thread Samuel Thibault
Dave Mielke, le Tue 05 Feb 2008 09:32:23 -0500, a écrit : > [quoted lines by Samuel Thibault on 2008/02/05 at 14:21 +] > > >> What should be done with leading blanks when lines are wrapped the way vim > >> does, i.e. after the line number? > > > >Which line number? By default vim doesn't sho

Re: [BRLTTY] Cut & paste

2008-02-05 Thread Nicolas Pitre
On Tue, 5 Feb 2008, Dave Mielke wrote: > [quoted lines by Samuel Thibault on 2008/02/05 at 14:21 +] > > >> What should be done with leading blanks when lines are wrapped the way vim > >> does, i.e. after the line number? > > > >Which line number? By default vim doesn't show any line number.

Re: [BRLTTY] Cut & paste

2008-02-05 Thread Dave Mielke
[quoted lines by Samuel Thibault on 2008/02/05 at 14:21 +] >> What should be done with leading blanks when lines are wrapped the way vim >> does, i.e. after the line number? > >Which line number? By default vim doesn't show any line number. With "set number", i.e. with numbers displayed, vi

Re: [BRLTTY] Cut & paste

2008-02-05 Thread Nicolas Pitre
On Tue, 5 Feb 2008, Dave Mielke wrote: > What should be done with leading blanks when lines are wrapped the way vim > does, i.e. after the line number? ? > What should be done with trailing blanks when, say, lines are wrapped on word > boundaries? You keep a single blank and append the next l

Re: [BRLTTY] Cut & paste

2008-02-05 Thread Dave Mielke
Please give linear cut a try in the latest brltty and let me know how it works. -- Dave Mielke | 2213 Fox Crescent | I believe that the Bible is the Phone: 1-613-726-0014 | Ottawa, Ontario | Word of God. Please contact me EMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Canada K2A 1H7 | if you're concer

[BRLTTY] Humanware Brailliant 40 drivers

2008-02-05 Thread Christian
Hi all, I have been searching for DOS drivers for my Brailliant 40, but I haven't found any as of yet. How do I get BRLTTY to run under DOS? I am using a backup program wich I need to get access to. All the best and thanks, Christian ___ This message w

Re: [BRLTTY] Humanware Brailliant 40 drivers

2008-02-05 Thread Samuel Thibault
Christian, le Tue 05 Feb 2008 17:48:45 +0100, a écrit : > I have been searching for DOS drivers for my Brailliant 40, but I haven't > found any as of yet. It looks like brltty's Baum driver should be able to support it, is Brailliant using the PowerBraille, the Baum or the HandyTech protocol? >

Re: [BRLTTY] Humanware Brailliant 40 drivers

2008-02-05 Thread Christian
Hi Samuel, Its running the Baum protocol. And I suppose i need to set it to serial right? Many thanks, Christian On 2008-02-05 at 17:19 Samuel Thibault wrote: >Christian, le Tue 05 Feb 2008 17:48:45 +0100, a écrit : >> I have been searching for DOS drivers for my Brailliant 40, but I >haven't fo

Re: [BRLTTY] Humanware Brailliant 40 drivers

2008-02-05 Thread Samuel Thibault
Christian, le Tue 05 Feb 2008 18:41:32 +0100, a écrit : > Its running the Baum protocol. And I suppose i need to set it to serial right? Yes, the DOS port supports only serial. However, apparently the Baum protocol runs at 19200bps, which is more than the maximum 9600bps that DOS supports without

Re: [BRLTTY] Humanware Brailliant 40 drivers

2008-02-05 Thread Christian
Hi Samuel and all, I got everything working now but not wiht BRLTTY! I didn't think about it until now but I changed the protocol to pb and I could then use my old DOS drivers for my powerbraille with the display. But will try BRLTTY as well! Thanks, Christian On 2008-02-05 at 17:50 Samuel Thib

Re: [BRLTTY] Humanware Brailliant 40 drivers

2008-02-05 Thread Samuel Thibault
Christian, le Tue 05 Feb 2008 20:07:43 +0100, a écrit : > I got everything working now but not wiht BRLTTY! > I didn't think about it until now but I changed the protocol to pb and I > could then use my old DOS drivers for my powerbraille with the display. But > will try BRLTTY as well! PowerBra

Re: [BRLTTY] Humanware Brailliant 40 drivers

2008-02-05 Thread Lee Maschmeyer
Several months ago I ran the CombiBraille on the brltty DOS version then available. It runs at 38400. It wasn't pure DOS though, it was the DOS box under Windows XP. Does that make a difference in maximum speed? -- Lee Maschmeyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Be kind to your fur-bearing friends, For a

Re: [BRLTTY] Humanware Brailliant 40 drivers

2008-02-05 Thread Samuel Thibault
Lee Maschmeyer, le Tue 05 Feb 2008 14:57:36 -0500, a écrit : > Several months ago I ran the CombiBraille on the brltty DOS version then > available. It runs at 38400. It wasn't pure DOS though, it was the DOS box > under Windows XP. Does that make a difference in maximum speed? Possibly yes, I d

Re: [BRLTTY] Humanware Brailliant 40 drivers

2008-02-05 Thread Lee Maschmeyer
It was working with bugs. As I remember, I reported that the preferences menu didn't save settings and the documentation wasn't easy to read. Whatever the problems were I wrote about them here... -- Lee Maschmeyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Be kind to your fur-bearing friends, For a skunk may be som

Re: [BRLTTY] Humanware Brailliant 40 drivers

2008-02-05 Thread Samuel Thibault
Lee Maschmeyer, le Tue 05 Feb 2008 15:10:16 -0500, a écrit : > It was working with bugs. Ok, cool! > the documentation wasn't easy to read. Do you mean, it didn't have any newlines? sa ___ This message was sent via the BRLTTY mailing list. To post a

Re: [BRLTTY] Humanware Brailliant 40 drivers

2008-02-05 Thread Samuel Thibault
Lee Maschmeyer, le Tue 05 Feb 2008 16:29:18 -0500, a écrit : > If I remember right, and I might not, the documentation had escape > sequences. Ah yes the titles are made bold by sgml2txt Actually it is not DOS-specific, it may burden people on other OSes. Dave, it looks like passing option -f t

Re: [BRLTTY] Humanware Brailliant 40 drivers

2008-02-05 Thread Lee Maschmeyer
If I remember right, and I might not, the documentation had escape sequences. -- Lee Maschmeyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Be kind to your fur-bearing friends, For a skunk may be somebody's brother." --Fred Allen ___ This message was sent via the BRL

Re: [BRLTTY] Humanware Brailliant 40 drivers

2008-02-05 Thread Dave Mielke
[quoted lines by Samuel Thibault on 2008/02/05 at 21:44 +] >Ah yes the titles are made bold by sgml2txt > >Actually it is not DOS-specific, it may burden people on other OSes. > >Dave, it looks like passing option -f to sgml2txt makes this disappear, >could you apply the attached patch? Done.

Re: [BRLTTY] Humanware Brailliant 40 drivers

2008-02-05 Thread Sébastien Hinderer
Hi Christian, Just out of curiosity: would dosemu have been helpful in your situation ? Cheers, Sébastien. ___ This message was sent via the BRLTTY mailing list. To post a message, send an e-mail to: BRLTTY@mielke.cc For general information, go to: http