[orca-list] Kakoune editor and Orca

[Nolan Darilek <nolan thewordnerd info>]

http://kakoune.org/


I'm playing with this new console code editor and am having some issues. 
The biggest is that Orca doesn't seem to track the cursor when it moves. 
I can enter text, but it isn't read when I arrow around, nor does my 
review cursor end up near the text when I review what I've written. It 
seems to land near the status line. Unfortunately the default status 
line is a bit chatty, which I fixed by eliminating outputting the 
line/column position of the cursor, but that didn't eliminate the cursor 
issue.


Were I to file an issue against Kakoune, since this does seem like a Kak 
and not an Orca problem, what should I tell them to change so Orca can 
track the cursor?


Kak also offers hooks that run shell commands, along with retrieving 
lots of information on the buffer. If it's just a matter of outputting 
ANSI escape sequences or something to change where Orca/VTE perceives 
the cursor to be, maybe I can write an accessibility helper. I'm 
thinking of experimenting with doing that anyway, so selection changes 
and such get piped to Orca, and maybe we can have a better console 
editing experience without having to switch to a VT or use Speakup. 
Nothing wrong with either, it'd just be fewer context switches.