trouble with CVS and a request for votes

[Charles Hallenbeck]

Hi Greg

On Thu, 27 Sep 2001, Gregory Nowak wrote:

> Give me an example of a DOS screenreader
> like that in an editor.

I can't help you on that one, but here is an interesting observation:

I am a pine user, and so I am relatively comfortable with pico editor.
Pico tracks the cursor perfectly but it does not spontaneously read
anything when the cursor moves. On the other hand, the pico look-alike
'nano' which also tracks the cursor perfectly, does spontaneously read
each character as you move the cursor left or right.

The point is: Cursor tracking is not the problem. The problem is what gets
spoken as the cursor is tracked, and on that score there3 are wide
variations from one application to the next in a Linux environment.

I do not think it is helpful to look for DOS parallels.

Chuck



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