[orca-list] Is there a workaround for this Vim issue?

[Nolan Darilek <nolan thewordnerd info>]

Trying to get into using Vim over Gedit. It seems to have lots of great 
ways to boost my productivity but I keep hitting issues using it in an 
Orca terminal. To see this one, do the following:


1. Enable the "speak indentation" setting in Orca's settings.

2. Run vim.

3. Type "a" to enter append mode.

4. Type all of the following between the "---" lines, not including the 
"---" lines themselves:


---

Test

  Indented line

---


Note the 2 spaces before "Indented line"


5. Backspace over everything on "  Indented line", including spaces.

6. Press up-arrow.

7. Press down-arrow.


When I down-arrow, I hear "2 spaces" but I can't left/right-arrow over 
them. If I review in flat review mode, I still see the spaces.


I filed a Neovim issue about this a while back, but I think it also 
happens in regular Vim since nvim is a fork. My thinking is that there's 
some artifact in how Vim renders its terminal where it leaves the 2 
spaces around even though they can't be traversed, but I've also seen 
scenarios where gnome-terminal and the accessible view of the terminal 
get out of sync, so I'm wondering if this might be one of those?


I'm also wondering if there is a workaround? This makes distinguishing 
between a blank line, in the "\n\n" sense, impossible to distinguish 
between lines of spaces, which some folks put in their code for some 
reason or other. I've also seen instances where deleting all the text of 
a line leaves its indentation spacing behind, which I don't want in my 
own code. Looking into how to do this automatically with Vimscript on 
file write, which I know is possible.


Thanks.