From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-vw0-f42.google.com (mail-vw0-f42.google.com [209.85.212.42]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id B5A70C1A4F8 for ; Wed, 17 Nov 2010 18:30:47 -0500 (EST) Received: by vws9 with SMTP id 9so1462409vws.29 for ; Wed, 17 Nov 2010 15:30:47 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:received:date:from:to:subject :message-id:mail-followup-to:references:mime-version:content-type :content-disposition:content-transfer-encoding:in-reply-to :user-agent; bh=xTp3PmmQ2Tg5cRkTCt4YT0Zg/ah2idgVj9ejkmaj8hc=; b=v92IOUmtBDSW9Dfow5WNfV9GRrAj3L16lBgkb7hZRiyixgtJYT0l8Ibo/KgT6OS7A/ 6GNEZdOpIvrBcLdXx7wcA1eq4mjQpdnUKfCuUhilzVdbEgQg/AwYISbD8CcTDPfp9cw6 ZtNRYCOLYtBKieANOmETzI5X/o6Ce0SxXh5J4= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=date:from:to:subject:message-id:mail-followup-to:references :mime-version:content-type:content-disposition :content-transfer-encoding:in-reply-to:user-agent; b=q7E+8XEVB2TqWqT5gTvPLcvZK5fMwW9GSwcbfhtQopaqZutnmIvTldUgB/EHaikG1k TYo1F21uTdvBBIOWzegFT4xhorYPLkOuppCJzJg8l0WEd+hpGi2FLL0g4bO+05LwDIZB qJb1zU5UAp/Ji3CRnpIscvamm0fLZdjWHXoW0= Received: by 10.220.164.67 with SMTP id d3mr2315327vcy.123.1290036647254; Wed, 17 Nov 2010 15:30:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from linux1 (cpe-76-183-49-63.tx.res.rr.com [76.183.49.63]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id c40sm872636vcs.1.2010.11.17.15.30.44 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Wed, 17 Nov 2010 15:30:46 -0800 (PST) Received: by linux1 (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Wed, 17 Nov 2010 17:30:43 -0600 Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2010 17:30:43 -0600 From: William Hubbs To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca Subject: Re: If bash can, why not Speakup? Message-ID: <20101117233043.GA26689@linux1> Mail-Followup-To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca References: <98haom$7bpkcl@ipmail06.adl6.internode.on.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable In-Reply-To: <98haom$7bpkcl@ipmail06.adl6.internode.on.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 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, 17 Nov 2010 23:30:47 -0000 On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 09:23:29AM +1000, pj@pjb.com.au wrote: > Janina Sajka wrote: > > I've been happily using vim for years. >=20 > How do you cope with the endlessly-updating bottom line?, like: > "497L, 15593C 450,2 93%" >=20 > I find speakup is in general difficult with curses applications > because of their screen-update optimisation. The characters > don't necessarily come out in a text-related order. You can disable that line by putting the following line in your ~/.vimrc: set noruler > > My biggest complaint is that I need to be ultra-careful to > > track whether I'm in insert or command mode, i.e. it would > > sure help if Speakup could give me a differently pitched voice >=20 > Good point :-) It might need some help from the vim folk... Yes, something like this would take modifications to vim to make it communicate to speakup some how, and I'm not sure what that would involve since I haven't looked at the vim code at all. William