From ed50c659f447aac07c29916687802a552b2040ac Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Robert Pluim Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2025 15:44:49 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] * etc/PROBLEMS: Describe how to work around screen reader TAB issue (cherry picked from commit cbfc095ed42be5fd2b848cb837b3340670fe9ef6) --- etc/PROBLEMS | 12 ++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+) diff --git a/etc/PROBLEMS b/etc/PROBLEMS index 20fe9134da5..b8a60b7e4c2 100644 --- a/etc/PROBLEMS +++ b/etc/PROBLEMS @@ -2678,6 +2678,18 @@ terminals, for example, like this: This disables 'auto-composition-mode' on frames that display on terminals of this type. +** Screen readers get confused about character position + +The Emacs display code sometimes emits TAB characters purely for motion +on the terminal, even when those characters do not exist in the buffer. +This can confuse screen reader software under certain terminal emulators +(rxvt and vte have been cited). Switching to destructive tabs by running + + stty -tabs + +in the terminal before starting Emacs may mitigate this. See also the +discussion in Bug#78474 . + * Runtime problems specific to individual Unix variants ** GNU/Linux -- 2.39.5