[BRLTTY] Strategies for copy/paste

[Dr. Volker Jaenisch]

Dear Brltty Users!


I have some stupid questions concerning the topic copy/paste. Background 
is that I teach my blind brother to to use command line tools with brltty.

One task is writing emails with 'alpine' and there a sound editor comes 
into play. 'Alpine' supports lots of console editors and I tried "micro" 
and 'jed' for starters.

My brother lives quite a distance from me so our teaching sessions are 
done utilizing 'tmux' duplexed 'ssh' sessions. We utilize 'tmux' so that 
I can see what he types in the console and vice versa.

Copy/paste is usually done be setting markers for the begin and end of a 
region of the console to be copied. This can be done utilizing brltty 
directly or the functionality of the editor.

Utilizing brltty has the charm that the routing keys can be used to set 
the markers with ease. But these brltty markers are not reflected into 
the console and I do not see what my brother marked has marked.

Utilizing the functionality of the editor has the charm that I can 
easily see the regions marked, but the editor marks (Highlighting) are 
not reflected into brltty and my brother cannot detect the marked region.

So nether of these two approaches is satisfying.

Since the later problem is a general obstacle for brltty console 
programm users I am sure that there must be a solution e.g. config 
option to deal with that.


Any help appreciated.


Cheers,

Volker


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