From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailhub-3.iastate.edu ([129.186.140.13]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1BQ6PI-000436-00 for ; Tue, 18 May 2004 11:21:28 -0400 Received: from mailout-1.iastate.edu (mailout-1.iastate.edu [129.186.140.1]) by mailhub-3.iastate.edu (8.12.10/8.12.10) with SMTP id i4IFLRk0017915; Tue, 18 May 2004 10:21:27 -0500 Received: from gene3.ait.iastate.edu(129.186.144.105) by mailout-1.iastate.edu via csmap id ebd00f0a_a8de_11d8_8db5_00304811d932_13165; Tue, 18 May 2004 15:20:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: from gene3.ait.iastate.edu (really [127.0.0.1]) by gene3.ait.iastate.edu via in.smtpd with esmtp (ident collins using rfc1413) id (Debian Smail3.2.0.102) for ; Tue, 18 May 2004 10:20:46 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: To: norlingdeborah@fhda.edu, "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." In-reply-to: Your message of Wed, 12 May 2004 09:39:57 -0700. Date: Tue, 18 May 2004 10:20:46 -0500 From: "Gene Collins" Cc: Subject: Re: Effortless editing with Speakup X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 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: Tue, 18 May 2004 15:21:28 -0000 Hi Debee. Well, as Kirk has said in earlier posts, you should upgrade to a new kernel and the cvs version of Speakup, which is about ready to become Speakup 2.0, the production version. The cursor tracking does indeed work well for editing under the cvs version of Speakup, and it doesn't really matter which editor you use. I use one called MicroEmacs, which is a public domain editor. If you really want the source, you can google for it, but I've put a tar ball up on bumpy in the goodies directory, which contains a pre-compiled binary. It gives you most of the editing features of gnu/emacs, but doesn't include the kitchen sink. This means you don't get html mode, no mail reader, no news reader, no calendar, etc. Just a plain vanilla editor that only uses 2 meg of disk space, instead of the 27 plus meg that gnu/emacs uses. If you decide to try it, the tar ball is called uemacs.tar.gz. download it, become root, and change to the slash (/) directory. Untar uemacs.tar.gz like so: tar xzf /home/mydir/uemacs.tar.gz The files will be put in /usr/local/bin/uemacs. Make sure it is in your path. Then type memacs file-name to run the editor. There is a .emacsrc file in the /usr/local/bin/uemacs directory that you can customize. The menu window with the function key descriptions can be toggled on and off with the f5 function key, and you enter the help system with f6 and exit with f10. I should really put the source up there as well, since it is in the public domain. The beauty of this editor is that I've had it on just about every computer system I've ever worked on. DOS, a Vax running vms, an at&t 7300 running system v., a Macintosh, Windows 9.x, dec ultrix systems, and now linux. Suffice it to say, that MicroEmacs is a very small and portable editor. Gene