Re: Linux, how do you eat yours?

[Dave Hunt <dave.hunt2@verizon.net>]

Hi,

Many of the tools I use with emacspeak are either entirely written in
emacs-lisp or front ends for accessing tools written in other
languages.  Emacspeak, itself, is one of the former.  All these are
extensions of emacs's feature set.  

I have three web clients I use with emacspeak,  w3, w3m, and lynx.
There's a nice mode for launching and running lynx from within
emacspeak.  W3 is a web client, written entirely in emacs-lisp.  Finally, there's a
speech-enabled "front end" for the w3m web client.  I need three
because none works on all sites I often visit.  

For irc and other things, I run a shell (mine happens to be BASH),
from within emacs.  All the editing features of emacs are available in
a shell buffer.  Thus, you can move around the buffer, do searches,
save a bunch of commands and responses, and so on.  It's better than
any screen-review mode; you have a running log of your shell session.  


This letter is written with yet another emacspeak-enabled extension
called VM.  


-Dave