Speech on vim backspace [Was: If bash can, why not Speakup?]

[Albert Sten-Clanton]

Thanks, Janina. 

Al 

-----Original Message-----
From: speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca [mailto:speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca]
On Behalf Of Janina Sajka
Sent: Thursday, November 18, 2010 3:32 PM
To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.
Subject: Speech on vim backspace [Was: If bash can, why not Speakup?]

Albert Sten-Clanton writes:
> In addition to the suggestion below, I'd very much like to hear the 
> characters I'm backspacing over.  I asked about this a few years ago, 
> but I gathered that this wasn't easy to do.  Any thoughts?


I have speech on backspace in vim, at least I do in insert mode.

You may need to set your charset to iso 8859-1 in your .vimrc. I don't
recall specifically whether this problem is solved, but other nasties are
solved this way. I'd love to use utf, but it isn't speaking as cleanly as
8859-1.

Janina
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