questions about text-based e-mail

[Kerry Hoath]

Call me simplistic but why can't you have an alias to load a specific 
set of configuration data when you launch mutt?
It won't help you on other virtual consoles however having speakup track 
which console you are on and pull settings whilst highly useful would be 
an incredible increase in code complexity.

Having speakup in the kernel is useful however it makes reading files 
and applying settings tricky, as this stuff is often better done in 
userspace.

Orca can probably do better at this as it is a framework built into 
gnome and can do stuff based on ap events, which is the way 
Windows-based screen readers usually function.

If we hook the keyboard driver and trap when vc switching occurs 
something might be possible but it does put overhead on the system. Just 
my thoughts.
People with more knowledge on kernel and Linux internals feel free to 
debunk my theories.
Regards, Kerry.

On 22/09/2010 2:16 PM, Gaijin wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 11:48:01AM +1000, Jason White wrote:
>    
>> For anybody who is using Mutt but isn't aware of this option, you can
>> add the following line to your ~/.muttrc file:
>> set braille_friendly=yes
>>      
> 	I like the "unset help" for getting rid of the help menu.  I
> also like the ignore, unignore, folder_format, and hdr_order settings
> for cutting down the column noise when working with mail folders, and
> restricting the header fields to what you want, where you want them,
> respectively.  Once you know that the question mark is for help and q is
> for quit, the menu is just a pain to listen to all the time, and you can
> cut down on all the timestamp info when navigating mail folders.
> Myself, I only like to hear who wrote what and in which mailing list, so
> weeding out header fields like date and user agent is also nice on the
> ears.  Now if speakupconf could just save and load a filename, we could
> set up specific, program-wise speakup configurations that could be
> scripted to load when a particular program is in use...turn on the
> greater-than sign for reading messages with quoted text in mutt, and
> turn it off again when exitting without trying to guess what's in
> /sys/accessibility/speakup/punct_some and modifying that.
>
> 				Michael
>
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