No text editing???

[Janina Sajka]

Rich:

Speakup is as easy as asap.

Need I say more?

The numeric keypad works the same way ...

7 8 9 read a line -- previous current next in that order, just as in asap.

So, to answer you directly? How easy is to read the current line? It's as
easy as pressing 8 on the numeric keypad.


On Mon, 20 Aug 2001, Rich Caloggero wrote:

> 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
> >
> > --
> >
> > 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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