Ah maybe that's it. You I think are the first to be testing on something
that old.
Ken
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Subject: Re: Emacspeak on Mac OSX Revisited
Ken, specs as follows:
PPC Mac Mini,
1.41 GHz CPU clock,
512 MB RAM,
OSX 10.5.8 (Leopard),
Python 2.5,
Last Xcode released for Leopard PPC (Xcode 3.4.1),
latest everything else of the open source stuff (emacs, emacspeak and
all dependencies installed by macports).
Have noticed a Python 2.7 installation in /opt somewhere -- probably
done by macports -- but I couldn't get the mac speech server to run off
it since it struggled to find Python modules. Not sure how to resolve
that. It might be as simple as including some path in some env var --
any ideas?
It's not a fast machine as you can see from the specs, but it should be
able to run console stuff effortlessly.
Some questions if I may:
001. Would running itt on Python 2.7 as apposed to the 2.5 version make
a significant difference?
010. Is it possible that, although I did use macports to get latest
emacs that it's still running some other, older emacs?
011. Is Command Key + F5, which toggles VoiceOver on and off, sufficient
for getting VoiceOver out of the way?
100. Yes, binary numbering.... Just checking you are awake.
Florian, thanks for the Alt / Option / Meta key tip.
Kerns
On 6/13/2011 12:32 PM, Ken Perry wrote:
Um it's not the terminal. What python are you using? What OS and such?
I
can tell you that on this Mac book pro laptop the emacspeak runs like a
rocket.
Ken
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Hi Ken,
It would open up emacs but without the usual default text, as if
something was blocking or failing. When I ran emacs it worked like emacs
should. And of course, no speech :-). As an aside, this is exactly the
situation I experienced before under linux when I then just gave up on
it, but read on for a more pleasant ending...
Well, Bart and Florian's posts put me in the right direction; I looked
at emacspeak/servers/mac, corrected the shabang at the top to point to
the proper Python:
#! /usr/bin/pythong
instead of
#! /usr/bin/python2.6
Then I saw that the python script wasn't executable, did:
sudo chmod +x ./mac
and now, with VoiceOver turned off the testing of the speech server
worked.
Emacspaek still didn't seem to work totally right, so what I did is to
make config, make emacspeak and finally make install after changing the
ownership of the code to my user instead of root. Although I *thought* I
did your instructions verbatim, it seems that a bit of creativity on my
part caused me to type:
sudo svn co [url of emacspeak repo] etc.
so what was happening was that svn got emacspeak as root, I compiled it
as root, installed it as root and then tried to run it as non-root :-)
After redoing everything (config, make) as my own user and only
installing as root, plus the DTK_PROGRAM=mac env var, plus the shabang
change, and with VoiceOver off... I slowly typed "emacspeak", held my
breath and slammed the enter button. Nothing, and then bang it started
talking; "My circuits are functioning perfectly -- where in the world
have you had a system saying that ha ha, quite retro!
So it finally worked, but with a snag or two;
1. the Alt, or Option key in Mac parlance doesn't seem to get picked up
so I had to use the alternative Escape key + whatever.
2. Also, the system seems very sluggish and normal cursor movements
would speak something, but then stop speaking (while the cursor is
actually moving around and then perhaps start speaking again. While
there is no speech you would just hear "beep" on every key press /
cursor movement as if it is thinking or you've reached the bottom of the
file (which is not the case, just the same kind of beep sound).
I thing the problems described above is partly to be blamed on the
Terminal program, so next I'm going to try Bart's way of running a Cocoa
version of emacs with emacspeak.
On my quest to get emacspeak working I delved into the docs in the svn
repo and man, without any intended insult to anyone, it is a big mess! A
few guys have written a lot of fine documentation, but it's very
fragmented and I couldn't find simple instructions on how the whole
speech server thing works. Also, there is docs there from way, way back
which most likely don't apply any longer. Docs labeled as containing
instructions on how to get espeak working with emacspeak doesn't have
that info in them and so on.
Docs on actually using emacspeak and all it's modes / add ons I haven't
looked at since I just wanted install and config instructions, so can't
say anything about that. I can totally understand why people would just
give up on trying to setup emacspeak since things are very confused ---
sorry if you wrote emacspeak docs and this offends you! It's not my
intention to offend but to constructively critisize.
Bart, that howto on how to get the mac version of the speech server to
work is a good project, but since the email you sent was apparently cut
off, where can I get the full version of that (if it exists already)?
I guess this is the situation with most systems that are many years old
(docs being fragmented). Emacspeak is still a very exciting prospect,
but it would help if we can have a comprehensive path of docs how to get
it running first and then Alex's tutorial and others can take over from
there.
Since emacs comes in windows versions as well, would it not be trivial
to get emacspeak also working on windows? Perhaps a new speech server
written with Stefic's phonemic?
Regards,
Kerneels
On 6/10/2011 6:39 PM, Ken Perry wrote:
When you say it doesn't work what happens when you type emacspeak.
ken
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