Speakup and Vim

Speakup and Vim

[Eric Scheibler]

Hello,

I have two questions regarding Speakup and Vim:
1. Speakup constantly speaks the line - and collumn numbers when I move
the cursor around. This is especially annoying when I delete something
cause I don't get the info which character is deleted. I checked all
four cursor modes with no success. Is there anything else I can try?
2. Is it possible to synchronize the speakup cursor with the real
document cursor? An Example: I have a long text line and I read it word
by word (Speakup modifyer + l). In the middle of the text line there is
a character which I want to correct. At the moment I must bring the
document cursor to this position with the arrow keys. But it would be
much easyer if I could set the document cursor to the point where the
Speakup cursor is.

Thanks for help
Regards
Eric

Re: Speakup and Vim

[Samuel Thibault]

Eric Scheibler, le Sun 08 Apr 2012 19:15:31 +0200, a écrit :
> 1. Speakup constantly speaks the line - and collumn numbers when I move
> the cursor around.

See http://brl.thefreecat.org/wiki/vi : add

set noruler 
set noshowcmd

to your ~/.vimrc

Samuel

Re: Speakup and Vim

[Eric Scheibler]

Hi Samuel,

thanks for your help. now it's much better. But speakup still doesn't
read the deleted character when I use the backspace key to remove.
Instead of reading the cell number it says nothing now. The only
Exception I found is the "space" character. Other suggestions?

Regards
Eric

Re: Speakup and Vim

[D. Curtis Willoughby]

If you have not made up your mind unalterably to use vim, I
would suggest that ed is much more speech-friendly.  You could
also try edbrowse, which has some good features.  I have been
using ed since I first met unix almost 35 years ago, and it has
worked extremely well, both for Braille, and for speakup.  The
sighted folks among us do not tell us about ed, because vim or
vi are more friendly to them.  In fact, they have now taken it out
of debian's basic packages.  You can install it, though after
the installation.  Another fact that may not be too well-known
is that even vim can be made to work a lot like ed with a
simple command, which I have forgotten.  It adds a colon (:) prompt,
and makes vi/vim into a command-line editor, rather than a
cursor-based editor.  Good luck with whatever you decide upon.

D. Curtis Willoughby