Emacspeak and w3

[Kerry Hoath <kerry@gotss.ml.org>]

I have just started using emacspeak and emacs 19.34 and it is definitely
proving to be an experience. After rtfming thoroughly, and taking the tutorial
I feel that I have the basics of movement and the like figured out. I didn't
need an editor and ed comes up faster <grin>. I have started to work with w3 4.0
and vm as these are the tools I will be mostly using. I have anumber of questions
that should probably go to the emacspeak mailing list but I lost the address
and the bookmarks relevant to it you send mail to somewhere at vasa.edu or 
somesuch.


I have installed the Debian pre-packaged emacs, bo version 19.34 and emacspeak
was installed by hand. I have not gone hamm yet because if the laptop pcmcia
card services go west I'm in a bit of a pickle. I start w3 by simply doing:
M-X w3
and it brings up the w3 documentation by default. I don't know how to get it
to open an arbitery URL. The emacspeak shell script also loads emacs with
options I do not understand, my question is if I add customizations to .emacs
will they still take effect when I run emacspeak?

How do you tell you are on a hyperlink? hitting tab appears to read the url
out which isn't what I want, I need to here the link name, at the moment I
am cursoring through the line until I find the * chars and hitting return there.

When I load emacspeak, I get the message,
"No autorevert in search path"
This stops the voice test and causes the default screen to be "scratch lisp
interaction". Not exactly what I want I'd preferr the default emacs helpscreen.
I have searched the source of emacspeak, (Does that count as reading docs?!)
and have discovered that it is emacspeak emmitting that error message. Other
than commenting out the line (An awful hack I admit,) What is
autorevert, should I get it and install it, or how do I make the message go
away?

Yes, I agree installing the packages would have probably been simpler, but I
learn much more this way, and learning is good.

If some kind soul can give me any hints or the address to write to for the 
emacspeak list, that'd be useful. I have tons more questions, but think I've
got a feature-packed message as it is so I'll refrain.
For reference, I'm using Jim's doubletalk driver with a doubletalk LT
(Nice bit of work that.). I'll be pulling it apart as soon as I get better
at emacs and learn tcl. If all goes well expect a server for the keynote gold
line of synthisizers I can get the developer's kit for them.
Regards, Kerry.

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Kerry Hoath:
kerry@gotss.ml.org or khoath@bitbox.tamtafe.nsw.edu.au