[BRLTTY] Strategies for copy/paste

[Samuel Thibault]

Sébastien Hinderer, le mer. 25 janv. 2023 13:33:45 +0100, a ecrit:
> Samuel Thibault (2023/01/23 11:38 +0100):
> > Sébastien Hinderer, le sam. 21 janv. 2023 19:15:38 +0100, a ecrit:
> > > Dr. Volker Jaenisch (2023/01/21 18:25 +0100):
> > > >    This may be due to tmux but the real terminal is 700km away and I
> > > >    cannot look upon it.
> > > 
> > > Thinking about it twice it seems likely, yes.
> > 
> > Yes, tmux won't know at all about brltty's selection, so it cannot
> > transmit the information to the other client.
> > 
> > Another way to perform copy/paste would be to use tmux' support, which
> > show up on all connect clients. But that won't teach your brother the
> > brltty way.
> > 
> > Ideally brltty would be able to tell tmux where the selection is, that'd
> > have to be discussed with tmux people. Possibly brltty could run a tmux
> > command to tell it the selection, and tmux could be made to highlight
> > the selection.
> 
> Could it be that there is a little misunderstanding, here?

Very possibly, I haven't been following the thread at all.

> The original discussion was indeed about the text selected to be
> copy/pasted into brltty's clipboard, but then we moved to the
> highlighting by brltty of the position of the braille window. That's
> where I wanted to ask your opinion, Samuel.

Ok, but the answer is the same. The highlighting is done by telling the
kernel to select the corresponding text. But tmux doesn't know about
that selection, and thus cannot propagate the information.

Samuel