No text editing???

[Charles Hallenbeck]

I guess it depends on what you mean by "full" text editing. There is
sufficient support for text editing at present, providing you are happy
with text-only files, and you use the speakup cursor tracking feature
sparingly - do not rely on it for all actions.

What you do not have is support for proprietary formats such as WP or
MSWord, and cursor tracking is not perfect either. But I write a lot, and
am comfortable with the limitations I mentioned above. Everyone has a
favorite editor - mine is pico, but I occasionally switch to ed for global
replaces. Otherwise pico word wraps, justifies, has block
copy/move/delete, easy access to a spell checker, and you can insert
another file into a document. 

That may not be "full" text editing, but it is plenty full enough for a
lot of folks, myself included.

Best - Chuck


On Mon, 20 Aug 2001, Kirk Wood wrote:

> On Sun, 19 Aug 2001, Saqib Shaikh wrote:
> > i personally prefer emacspeak because speakup doesn't have full text editing
> > support yet, and text editing seems the key to doing most tasks under linux.
> 
> My roomate has been using linux at home exclusively for about two
> years. She is using speakup and manages to edit text. In fact, text
> editing is a very important part of her efforts to get through a
> school. So, if there is no text editing how does she do it? (I am sure she
> really is blind and know there is no monitor on her computer to cheat
> with.)
> 
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