keystrokes: to speak or not to speak

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I experience this same problem; except, when backspacing over spaces, I
hear space. 

On Sat, May 20, 2006 at 10:35:23AM -0400, propaine wrote:
> Greetings!  I'm new to this list.  I can't really say I'm "new" to Linux,
> but I'm sure in the early stages of learning to use it.  In case it helps
> with my questions, I'm using Fedora 2 with the Speakup-modified kernel,
> installed for me in the fall of 2004 where I bought the computer.  (Upgrade
> matters may be for another time.  The Linux box is not yet on the Internet.)
> 
> I've taken to using VIM lately.  At the moment, my main complaint about it
> is that, when I use the backspace key, I rarely hear what I'm deleting, so I
> have to check where I am with the Speakup reading keys.  I say "rarely,"
> because a few times I did hear what I was backspacing over, but have not
> figured out what cause it to happen in the hope of getting it all the time.
> Does anybody know whether or how I can do this?
> 
> In Emacs, I do hear what I'm backspacing over, but notice another keystroke
> silence.  When I use, say, control-f or control-n to move the cursor to the
> next character or line, I hear nothing most of the time:  only the arrow
> keys talk for such moves.  I do hear the new screen with control-v, and I
> think sometimes enough changes on the screen from time to time for control-n
> to produce speech, but otherwise these supposedly handy keystrokes don't
> look real handy with speech.  Could the root of this be similar or related
> to the root of my VIM keystroke question?
> 
> Thank you very much for whatever anybody can tell me.
> 
> Propaine
> 
> p.s.  The name I use here is a way of expressing my regard for Tom Paine.  I
> bet he'd have been at least in sympathy with the free software movement.
> 
> 
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