Re: [orca-list] orca does not count repeated chars in terminal

[Michael Whapples <mwhapples aim com>]

Hello,
I can confirm what you state, but I ask whether this is incorrect. Let 
me do this with an example:

Open your file with ten star characters in it in nano (command: nano 
tmp.txt).
Move to the line below the star characters and then press up arrow to go 
back to it, I get the correct announcement.

When you perform the cat operation you are getting output in another way 
(you are getting screen changing information). It is hard to think of a 
gui example which relates to this, the closest I can think of is copying 
from the clipboard in gedit. Try the following:

open gedit. Type "**********" (again without quote marks) select the 
stars and press control+c to copy. Create new document (not really 
needed but ensures we know what we start with) now press control+v to 
paste. Listen to orca, its the same as when you do cat in a terminal 
with tmp.txt.

So this doesn't seem to be a gnome-terminal issue, and questionably is 
not wrong. If you feel screen changes should be read with repeat 
characters then file an enhancement bug proposing this alteration.

Michael Whapples
On 23/12/42 19:59, Jose Vilmar Estacio de Souza wrote:
> <div class="moz-text-flowed" style="font-family: -moz-fixed">Hi all,
> I'd like to confirm if this is a bug or if I am doing something wrong.
>
> To reproduce try the following steps:
> 1) create a file called tmp.txt with the following content:
> "**********"
> Please, omit the quotations.
>
> 2) Open a terminal session using gnome-terminal.
>
> 3) Type the following command:
> cat tmp.txt
>
> Result:
> orca reads * * * * * * * * * *
> Expected result:
> orca should read 10 characters *
>
> Using flat review keys announce the text correctly
> Thanks..