speakup and e-links, follow-up

[Kirk Reiser]

That is definitely the option I was speaking of.  The reason I
mentioned it is whoever is having trouble with their cursor not
tracking the high lighting probably has that turned on.

I am not sure if it will be helpful but here is a link to my
elinks.conf file folks can download if they like.  It goes in the
.elinks directory of your home directory.

https://reisers.ca/elinks.conf

   Kirk

On Sat, 9 Feb 2013, Al Sten-Clanton wrote:

> Hi, Kirk and others.
>
> Not finding block-cursor on the elinks man page, I did a yahoo search (having 
> first done a google search) and found this at
> <http://elinks.or.cz/documentation/html/manual.html-chunked/ch08.html>
>
> Block cursor
>
> Move cursor to the bottom right corner when done drawing, if possible. This 
> is particularly useful when we have a block cursor, so that text colors are 
> displayed correctly. If you are using a screen reader you do not want to 
> enable this since the cursor is strategically positioned near relevant text 
> of selected dialog elements.
>
> This boolean option is off by default.
>
> This, then, does not look like a replacement for the --show_cursor or 
> --show-cursor (I forget which) I used with lynx and you've used in elinks.  I 
> thought I'd pass this along, especially in case I got tripped up by the 
> terminology and there is indeed something relevant.
>
> Al
> On 02/08/2013 05:29 PM, Kirk Reiser wrote:
>> Very odd, you are right of course.  I believe they must have changed
>> the flag name at some point.  I've had it set so long that I never
>> noticed.  The current feature which seems to control that behaviour is
>> block_cursor which you will find under terminal > linux >
>> block_cursor.  Set that to zero in the edit pain which you need to tab
>> over one to reach from the options screen once you get there.
>> 
>> good luck.
>>    Kirk
>> 
>> 
>> On Fri, 8 Feb 2013, Albert Sten-Clanton wrote:
>> 
>>> I've used that with lynx, but trying it last night with elinks got me an
>>> error message.  I also didn't find it mentioned on the man page.  Am I
>>> missing something?  Thanks!
>>> 
>>> Al
>>> 
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Speakup [mailto:speakup-bounces at linux-speakup.org] On Behalf Of
>>> Kirk
>>> Reiser
>>> Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2013 10:12 AM
>>> To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.
>>> Subject: Re: speakup and e-links
>>> 
>>> Hi There is an option show-cursor which you need to turn on so that the
>>> cursor will follow the links as you up and down arrow through the
>>> page.  You
>>> can turn it on before entering elinks with -show-cursor and then turn
>>> it on
>>> permanently inside elinks with the 'o' keystroke to go into the
>>> configuration system.  The configuration system is a little confusing
>>> until
>>> you become familiar with it.  You hit the spacebar to expand menu options
>>> and unexpand them the same way.  You use the tab key to move through your
>>> various menu options like add, delete, edit, search etc.
>>> 
>>> You may find numbering useful.  I do not.  I find the cursor works
>>> just fine
>>> for moving through the links on a page.  I have a lot of different
>>> options
>>> set but they are not to satisfy speakup just satisfy my particular
>>> preferences.  I've never turned on highlight tracking but some may
>>> find that
>>> useful.  Elinks is my main web browser or has been until we started
>>> writing
>>> wb.  It is a fine browser for what it does.
>>>
>>>   Kirk
>>> 
>>> On Mon, 4 Feb 2013, Rob Hudson wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Documentation on these two together is pretty sparse. Any tips on
>>>> settings
>>> in speakup and e-links to make them work better together?
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