From: Shawn Kirkpatrick <shawn@shawnk.ca>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux."
<speakup@linux-speakup.org>
Subject: Re: bleeps and does anyone use goto
Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2016 17:08:11 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.10.1609121703420.9604@odyssey> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160912232359.GA22125@gregn.net>
On-screen find is a feature I actually use quite a bit. It's nice having the
ability to enter the search text and then have a way to search forward or
reverse.
It's true that a lot of packages have a way to find text within the current
document but it can be be very helpful to use this to get to the wanted
section of a document and then use the on-screen find to locate something
specific in that section without moving around in it.
It's just one more way to move quickly around the current screen and get to
information you really want.
On Mon, 12 Sep 2016, Gregory Nowak wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 11, 2016 at 11:00:11PM -0700, Shawn Kirkpatrick wrote:
>> Does speakup really not have an on-screen find? That would be long
>> overdue I'd say.
>
> Speakup doesn't have an on-screen find because it isn't necessary in
> my not so humble opinion. Such a feature already exists in lynx,
> elinks, vi, emacs, less, and there are almost certainly more from that
> list that I can't think of off the top of my head. Why duplicate a
> feature in speakup which already exists in various packages? Also, the
> find feature in those packages will do a find in the current
> page/document, whereas a speakup find feature would be limited only
> to the current screen contents. Just my $0.01. Oh yes, I don't use go-to either.
>
> Greg
>
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David
` Zachary Kline
` Chuck Hallenbeck
` Willem van der Walt
` Shawn Kirkpatrick
` Gregory Nowak
` Shawn Kirkpatrick [this message]
` Al Sten-Clanton
` Tom Fowle
` Jude DaShiell
` Hart Larry
` Brian Buhrow
` Kirk Reiser
` Janina Sajka
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