From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from ms-smtp-03.texas.rr.com ([24.93.47.42] helo=ms-smtp-03-eri0.texas.rr.com) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1BNx7J-0007mO-00 for ; Wed, 12 May 2004 13:02:01 -0400 Received: from tomass (cs24324-48.austin.rr.com [24.243.24.48]) by ms-smtp-03-eri0.texas.rr.com (8.12.10/8.12.7) with ESMTP id i4CH1vo7009263 for ; Wed, 12 May 2004 12:01:58 -0500 (CDT) Received: from stivers_t by tomass with local (Exim 4.33) id 1BNx7B-0006qh-Ha for speakup@braille.uwo.ca; Wed, 12 May 2004 12:01:57 -0500 Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 12:01:53 -0500 To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." Message-ID: <20040512170153.GE30872@tomass.dyndns.org> Mail-Followup-To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-Request-PGP: http://tomass.dyndns.org/~stivers_t/pubkey.asc X-Uptime: 1 weeks 5 days 23 hours 31 minutes 37 seconds User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i From: Thomas Stivers Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; x-action=pgp-signed X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on tomass X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL autolearn=ham version=2.63 X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: stivers_t@tomass.dyndns.org X-SA-Exim-Version: 4.0 (built Sat, 24 Apr 2004 12:31:30 +0200) X-SA-Exim-Scanned: Yes (on tomass) X-Virus-Scanned: Symantec AntiVirus Scan Engine Subject: Re: Effortless editing with Speakup X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 Precedence: list Reply-To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Id: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 17:02:01 -0000 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On May 12 2004 9:39 AM, Debee Norling wrote: > Well I got my slackware booting on the hard drive, but I now have a new > problem. I'm having a terrible time editing files. Cursor tracking in 1.10 > seems to be really flaky. I don't think there was ever a speakup 1.10. I know that 1.5 had some cursor tracking issues though. You may want to upgrade to the cvs version, but I don't know if there is a kernel with it for slackware, so you may have to built your own. > I've had a shell account on many different machines, so I know several UNIX > editors a little bit, but I know none of them well. I need to master one so > I can use it automatically, and I want to know which ones work well with > speakup. I like vim, which is vi improved. I wouldn't say though that it is easy to use, at least not at first. It is certainly powerful though. > I tried pico, emacs, Joe and Vi (Vi seems to have morphed into something > called Elvis) and with all of them I had trouble using even basic commands, > because Speakup would sometimes know where the cursor was, and sometimes > not. This is of course using numpad star to toggle cursor tracking on. > > So maybe the problem is that I have to adjust a console property or > something. If that's the case, we could start a different thread. Or maybe I > just need to master the right editor. As just another suggestion you might try nano. It is basically pico with more features and released under the GPL. You can find it at www.nano-editor.org if I remember corectly. - -- "Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it." - Brian W. Kernighan Thomas Stivers e-mail: stivers_t@tomass.dyndns.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAoliB5JK61UXLur0RAs6UAJ9hF1oBBwA6Y7OeOXS83ETvxS4cBACfYZtV g8JH1NjOdmzgau+y2HNQVPA= =2avN -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----