On Mon, 10 Sep 2018, Sebastian Humenda wrote: > Hi > > Nicolas Pitre schrieb am 09.09.2018, 18:02 -0400: > >On Sun, 9 Sep 2018, Sebastian Humenda wrote: > >> Dave Mielke schrieb am 09.09.2018, 13:58 -0400: > >> >[quoted lines by Sebastian Humenda on 2018/09/09 at 19:28 +0200] > >> >>I would like to request a functionality that, if switched on, would the > >> >>number > >> >>and kind of indentation when changing the current line. For instance > >> >>"eight > >> >>spaces" or "three tabs". > >> >What if it's a mixture like: 2 spaces, 3 tabs, 5 spaces > >> Then I think this needs to be announced. > > > >BRLTTY has no access to that information. Tabs are always expanded into > >spaces on the screen and there is no way to tell if some indentation is > >made of spaces or tabs at that level. Only your text editor knows that. > I see. It's a pitty, but I don't mind too much, I happen to work with spaces > 98 > % of the time anyway.
You should fix this issue at the editor level instead. For example, here's how you would do with vi: https://vi.stackexchange.com/questions/422/displaying-tabs-as-characters Several other sources show how to do it if your editor is emacs. Incidentally, this has nothing to do with the use of a braille display. Sighted people have the same issue. Nicolas _______________________________________________ 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://brltty.app/mailman/listinfo/brltty
