No text editing???

[Rich Caloggero]

The one question I have, not being a speakup user myself, is how easy is it
to ask it to read the line or word that I'm on. For example, if I use the
arrow keys or whatever to read the screen in emacs under speakup and find a
place where I want to make a change. My cursor is in the correct place, but
I just want to hear some context now. Can I ask speakup to just read the
line the cursor is on, or even read the sentence or paragraph which contains
the cursor? I believe this is very different, and seems like an easier
problem to the one of automatically figuring out and then reading an item
after the cursor has been moved.

                    Rich

----- Original Message -----
From: "Kirk Reiser" <kirk at braille.uwo.ca>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Monday, August 20, 2001 10:59 AM
Subject: Re: No text editing???


> Let me give a tad of clarification for the new and prospective speakup
> users.  Speakup allows you to have full editing capabilities, at least
> as full as any text based application under gnu/Linux.
>
> I use emacs with speakup with absolutely no difficulty and am using it
> currently to write this note.  I do not use emacspeak although I under
> stand it is a fine product.
>
> Now where some folks are complaining about speakups lack is in
> automatic cursor speaking.  Speakup tracks the cursor perfectly and is
> pretty well always where your cursor is.  What speakup does not do is
> automatically speak the line you are moving to.  It does not
> automatically say the characters you are moving onto.  It does track
> the cursor though.  There is an experimental mode of cursor speaking
> in the cvs version of speakup which in some applications works as well
> as any screen review package.  In other applications it doesn't work
> so well.
>
> I am only saying these things because it creates a false impression
> that somehow speakup is inferior and it just plain isn't.  I would be
> very happy to have folks help with fixing this situation of automatic
> speaking.  It is not a trivial problem to do correctly.  It is also
> not that high on my priority list because I have no problem writing,
> coding, reading and editing with it the way it currently works.
>
>   Kirk
>
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>
> Kirk Reiser The Computer Braille Facility
> e-mail: kirk at braille.uwo.ca University of Western Ontario
> phone: (519) 661-3061
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