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Re: Yasr port finished



On Sun, Mar 10, 2024 at 04:10:03PM +0000, adr wrote:
> Hi, I just pushed to wip my last update of the yasr port. I'm pretty
> happy with it.  It can be improved but that's beyond a port, that
> should be done upstream or in a fork.  If you are familiar with
> yasr read the comments on the patches. If you are not and want to
> use it, you have to take into consideration the way programs maintain
> the screen. For example vi would output several character to redraw
> portions of a line just after receiving a cursor key. Yasr can't
> distinguish this output from other so these characters are going
> to be spoken. This can be mitigated (to a certain level) through
> configuration of applications and yasr key bindings. Line oriented
> programs like ed, mailx, etc are the best option for yasr.
> 
> Could someone with pkgsrc access import this port?

I've just imported the package.

I noticed the configuration refers to eflite, but there's no
dependency on it. Is that an oversight or is eflite an optional
dependency?

Cheers,
 Thomas


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