Editors and speakup

[Dan Murphy]

Hi Chuck.  Well I just installed it, and what pleases me most is that
backspace works, more or less.  One of the things I find most welcome
when writing mail.  I don't consider myself a *good* typist, but if I
make a mistake, I don't want to be floundering around to ffind it, let
alone fix it.
thanks.

On Sat,
23 Mar 2002, Charles Hallenbeck wrote:

> Hi Dan,
>
> The URL for nano is:
>
> http://www.nano-editor.org
>
> The cursor tracking is not as good as emacs, but if your editing
> needs are modest, this is one you can live with pretty well. It
> has search and replace, regular expressions, and the cursor
> tracking works when moving left and right but not yet when moving
> up and down. In pico it does not work in either direction, so I
> guess that means nano is half way there. Interesting that there
> is so much variation among the different editors as far as the
> speakup cursor tracking behavior is concerned.
>
> Chuck
>
>
> On Sat, 23 Mar 2002, Dan Murphy wrote:
>
> > Hi Charles.  Where can I download Nano.  I have heard of it, but never
> > knew where to get it.
> > Thanks.
> > On Sat, 23 Mar 2002, Charles Hallenbeck wrote:
> >
> > > I use 'nano' with pretty good success as far as cursor tracking
> > > with speakup goes. If you know your physics, nano is like pico
> > > only more so. It tracks the cursor better than pico and offers
> > > other extra features too.
> >
> >
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