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pasky / speedread

A simple terminal-based open source Spritz-alike (per-word RSVP aligned on optimal reading points)
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Paused context behaviour #12

Open Scarberian opened 10 years ago

Scarberian commented 10 years ago

Often when paused, the highlit word is at the begining of physical line and you can't read the text prior to it to see a missed word.

Ideally (for me), pausing would place the highlit word at the end of the last line and fill the terminal right up with prior text or center the highlit word and fill in the terminal to and from it.

TL;DR Paused context is myopic!

pasky commented 10 years ago

Hmm, I'm a bit confused - when pausing, the last line and the line before that should display, precisely for this reason - you should still see the context. Is that not the behavior you are seeing?

Scarberian commented 10 years ago

It usually works but in some cases the highlighted word is at the very beginning of the context of the pause which defeats the purpose no? Not trying to nitpick just feeding back. I envisaged the current word being centered in the terminal and the context size limited to terminal size font size and not just 2physical lines however long or short they are.

Great app BTW.

Thanking you, Brian On Mar 15, 2014 1:44 PM, "Petr Baudis" notifications@github.com wrote:

Hmm, I'm a bit confused - when pausing, the last line and the line before that should display, precisely for this reason - you should still see the context. Is that not the behavior you are seeing?

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