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From: Janina Sajka <janina@rednote.net>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Subject: Speech on vim backspace [Was: If bash can, why not Speakup?]
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Albert Sten-Clanton writes:
> In addition to the suggestion below, I'd very much like to hear the
> characters I'm backspacing over.  I asked about this a few years ago, but I
> gathered that this wasn't easy to do.  Any thoughts?


I have speech on backspace in vim, at least I do in insert mode.

You may need to set your charset to iso 8859-1 in your .vimrc. I don't
recall specifically whether this problem is solved, but other nasties
are solved this way. I'd love to use utf, but it isn't speaking as
cleanly as 8859-1.

Janina