Re: [orca-list] Change made to flat review copy/append

[Nolan Darilek <nolan thewordnerd info>]

Essentially, what I'm saying you'd do is:


1. Using flat review, navigate to the beginning of the text to copy.

2. Press a key, let's call it Orca-[, even though that's likely bound.

3. Use flat review to navigate to the end of the text to copy.

4. Press Orca-].


All text between these markers is now selected and maybe automatically 
copied.


The line-based approach we have currently just feels odd because I don't 
think of copy-pasting as something I do by line. I think of it as 
something I do by selecting a block of text. Maybe that includes a final 
newline, maybe it doesn't. As it stands, I have to select each new line 
to copy, and I have to hope I use the Append command and don't have a 
brainfart, otherwise the process has to start again. And I have to use a 
multi-key command per line, which gets a bit tedious for 20 or so. 
Granted, shift-down-arrow is multi-key as well, but a bit easier to hit 
than my current bindings, Orca-up-arrow to copy, orca-down-arrow to 
append. It's on me for not hunting for something better, but still. :)

On 1/22/20 5:38 PM, Kyle via orca-list wrote:
> I have very limited experience with NVDA, so I can't comment on how it 
> handles everything, except to say that the last time I used it, that 
> object hierarchy they have was rather hard to handle compared to 
> Orca's flat review. That said, if the only difference between the 
> previous behavior of Orca and its new behavior is that a new line is 
> no longer appended to the end of the text, then it sounds reasonable 
> to me, and the change is good. I will need to play with this a bit in 
> order to form a better opinion however.
>
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