Cursor placement

Urs Janßen <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.network.tin.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
[manual fwd. of a non-member submission to tin-users]

> Is there an option to have the cursor (i.e., the terminal cursor) placed on
> the highlighted item in Tin?

No

> I found the draw_arrow option, but even when this is set, the cursor is placed
> on the bottom line of the screen.
> 
> Having the cursor properly positioned is important if the user is reading the
> screen with a braille display (http://www.mielke.cc/brltty/). The software
> driving the braille display, e.g., BRLTTY, tracks the cursor, not a highlight
> bar or an arrow.
> 
> I've been evaluating various news readers, and came across this problem while
> trying Tin.
> 
> If there isn't an option for this, perahps it should be entered as a bug.

Comments anyone? Thomas?

urs
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