No text editing???

[Gregory Nowak]

Amen, I will agree with what Scott has said 101%.
Greg


On Mon, Aug 20, 2001 at 08:59:53PM -0400, Scott Howell wrote:
> 
> Ay, I have to say that the only problem Speakup has ever has is it doesn't
> type for me thus it doesn't fix all the spelling errors. Seriously though,
> I find Speakup to be one incredible piece of work. Its made such a
> difference in my life. Not to sound hokie or anything, but Speakup and
> Linux have really brought my interest in computers far beyond my wildest
> dreams. Trapped inmicroslop hell limited me to what I could do and
> learn. SOme may argue, but I can assure you that there's little windows
> has ever offered and certainly has never made any task as simple as Linux
> and Speakup. Kirk and those who have contributed to the development of
> Speakup deserve a big thank you. I take every opportunity to tell folks
> about Speakup and the wonderful things the folks involved have done.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> ---
> Scott 
> 
> On 20 Aug 2001, Kirk Reiser wrote:
> 
> > 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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