question about some key commands

[Kirk Reiser]

Nice explanation Greg thanks. I use the spk-f4 more often to silence a
section of the screen I don't want to hear because information in that
section changes to much. I'll often silence the status line in emacs
if I have an active clock, load average etc. I also use it to silence
the status line in clifox or wb so I don't hear every little reference
page they are loading when building the DOM.


On Wed, 24 Jun 2015, Gregory Nowak wrote:

> I can help with some of those. Hopefully others will fill in what I
> don't know, or correct any misinformation below.
>
>
> On Wed, Jun 24, 2015 at 12:28:34PM +0200, Brandon Keith Biggs wrote:
>> spk key_f2 = set_win
>
> This is used to set up a window for speakup to read. Say you have a
> program with a status line that refreshes when something happens, and you want
> to hear only that line and nothing else. Move your speakup cursor to
> where the status line starts, and press speakup_key (spk) with
> f2. Move the speakup cursor to where the status line ends, and press
> spk+f2 again. Press numpad-asterisk until speakup says "read window."
> Now, speakup will read that status line when it refreshes. I can't
> think of an example program to test this with right now, so that last
> part about what speakup will do may be incorrect. If there is a laptop
> keymap equivalent for numpad-asterisk, I don't know it. If you don't
> have a numeric keypad, you should be able to use your fn key to
> emulate numpad keys. You'll need to check out whatever support you can
> find for your laptop to figure out how to do that.
>
>> spk key_f4 = enable_win
>
> This just turns on or off whether speakup will read the window when
> read window mode is enabled as far as I know.
>
>> spk key_f5 = edit_some
>
> This controls what characters will be read when punctuation
> (punc_level/reading_punc) is set to one. For example, when punctuation
> is set to one, the period isn't spoken. If you want the period to be
> spoken in punctuation one, press spk+f5, press the period key, and
> press space.
>
>> spk key_f6 = edit_most
>
> Same thing as above, but for punctuation three.
>
>> spk key_f7 = edit_delim
>
> Don't know.
>
>> spk key_f8 = edit_repeat
>
> If you have more then three periods in a row, speakup will just speak
> the period three times. If you press spk+f8, press period, and press
> space, speakup will now say something like "period x times," where x
> is how many times the period repeats.
>
>> shift spk key_f9 = edit_exnum
>
> Don't know.
>
> Greg
>
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