Re: [orca-list] Interesting issue panning braille display in Gnome-Terminal

[Tom Masterson <kd7cyu gmail com>]

I can confirm using orca master on mate 1.24 and ubuntu 18.04

Tom

On Sat, 25 Apr 2020, Jason White via orca-list wrote:

> Summary: pressing the right panning button on a braille display to advance 
> the window fails in GNOME-terminal if the length of the text line exceeds 
> that of the braille display (i.e., it won't pan right to show the remainder 
> of the line, but it will move to the next line if the current line is short 
> enough).
>
> Steps to reproduce:
>
> 1. With a 40-cell braille display, under GNOME-Terminal, start a Python 
> interpreter.
>
> 2. Run the following:
>
> print("-"*40)
>
> 3. Move the braille display to the output line, and press the right panning 
> button. The display moves to the following line correctly (i.e., the Python 
> prompt).
>
> 4. Repeat the above with a string length longer than the width of the braille 
> display (e.g., 60). Pressing the right panning button has no effect.
>
> I have Orca configured not to split words between braille lines, and with 
> contracted braille enabled. This also occurs if there are spaces on the line 
> (i.e., a line of regular text - such as a manual page).
>
> Debugging output can be supplied, as requested.
>
>
>
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