questions about text-based e-mail

[William Hubbs]

On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 07:54:28AM -0700, Steve Holmes wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 12:06:30AM -0700, Gaijin wrote:
> > > Call me simplistic but why can't you have an alias to load a
> > > specific set of configuration data when you launch mutt?
> > 
> > 	Mostly because speakupconf doesn't appear to load specified 
> > configuration files, as far as I can tell from the man page.
> 
> Actually, I think you could tell speakupconf to pull its values from a
> specific source upon each invocation so that way you could implement
> different speech parms on demand like when you launch a given
> application.  This sounds like an interesting idea; might have to look
> into this idea myself.

Speakupconf only saves or loads from /etc/speakup if it is run
as root, or ~/.speakup if it is run as a user.  enhancing it to allow a
location to be specified might be possible.

William