Effortless editing with Speakup

[Thomas Stivers]

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On May 12 2004  9:39 AM, Debee Norling wrote:
> Well I got my slackware booting on the hard drive, but I now have a new
> problem. I'm having a terrible time editing files. Cursor tracking in 1.10
> seems to be really flaky.

I don't think there was ever a speakup 1.10. I know that 1.5 had some
cursor tracking issues though. You may want to upgrade to the cvs
version, but I don't know if there is a kernel with it for slackware, so
you may have to built your own.

> I've had a shell account on many different machines, so I know several UNIX
> editors a little bit, but I know none of them well. I need to master one so
> I can use it automatically, and I want to know which ones work well with
> speakup.

I like vim, which is vi improved. I wouldn't say though that it is easy
to use, at least not at first. It is certainly powerful though.

> I tried pico, emacs, Joe and Vi (Vi seems to have morphed into something
> called Elvis) and with all of them I had trouble using even basic commands,
> because Speakup would sometimes know where the cursor was, and sometimes
> not. This is of course using numpad star to toggle cursor tracking on.
> 
> So maybe the problem is that I have to adjust a console property or
> something. If that's the case, we could start a different thread. Or maybe I
> just need to master the right editor.

As just another suggestion you might try nano. It is basically pico with
more features and released under the GPL. You can find it at
www.nano-editor.org if I remember corectly.

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Thomas Stivers	e-mail: stivers_t at tomass.dyndns.org
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