From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from dsl092-170-086.wdc1.dsl.speakeasy.net ([66.92.170.86] helo=toccata.rednote.net) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 16k7sT-0002c4-00 for ; Sun, 10 Mar 2002 13:17:01 -0500 Received: from localhost (janina@localhost) by toccata.rednote.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g2AIGMi02385 for ; Sun, 10 Mar 2002 13:16:22 -0500 X-Authentication-Warning: toccata.rednote.net: janina owned process doing -bs Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2002 13:16:22 -0500 (EST) From: Janina Sajka X-X-Sender: janina@toccata.rednote.net To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca Subject: Re: Questions about programs under Linux. In-Reply-To: <15498.57724.555209.364759@l-space.thewatch.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca Errors-To: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.8 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Isn't it a bit irresponsible to offer up advice for which you cannot even offer a reason? You thought it should be so? On what basis did you think this? Or, is "think" the wrong word here? On Sun, 10 Mar 2002, Yvonne Smith wrote: > Janina Sajka writes: > > On Sun, 10 Mar 2002, Yvonne Smith wrote: > > > If you think you'll > > > be spending most of your time in emacs, then wouldn't emacspeak perhaps > > > be a better solution than speakup? > > > > Why, for heaven's sake? Just because it has a similar name?? That would be > > silly. > > *sigh* no, that's not what I meant at all. Like I said, I'm in no > position to judge, since I've really never used emacs under speakup. I > merely thought if someone was going to spend a lot of time in emacs, > the interface that emacspeak uses might be easier to use. I didn't mean > it as a definite "you must use emacspeak" only as a "you should > possibly use emacspeak" if you were going to say spend 80% of your > computing time under emacs. > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > -- Janina Sajka, Director Technology Research and Development Governmental Relations Group American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) Email: janina@afb.net Phone: (202) 408-8175 Chair, Accessibility SIG Open Electronic Book Forum (OEBF) http://www.openebook.org