Re: Emacspeak: Specific and General Inquiries

  • From: Alex Midence <alex.midence@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2010 08:11:14 -0500

I'd also run this one past the vinux mailing list.  There are a few
people on there who are keen on emacspeak who might be able to lend
you a hand.

Thanks.
Alex M

On 10/21/10, DaShiell, Jude T.  CIV NAVAIR 1490, 1, 26
<jude.dashiell@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> It's a good idea first to customize emacs then customize emacspeak.
> Emacs customizations can be tricky for the first time.  The
> customization menu tree when you get into it for each branch has choices
> that enable you to save settings but that choice on lesser branches only
> saves changes you made in that particular menu.  Until you get to save
> all settings though, and select that probably nothing happens.  To check
> your work, after emacs is closed down check for a .emacs file in your
> home directory and you should be able to read the customizations you
> made in that file.  When emacspeak gets started up by itself
> notwithstanding customizations already made to emacs, it uses its own
> rules and that's what may be causing problems here.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jared Wright
> Sent: Thursday, October 21, 2010 7:28
> To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Emacspeak: Specific and General Inquiries
>
> Hi all, For the moment, I am running into an issue on this setup where
> Emacs is not allowing me to save any customization. All customizations
> files, including Emacspeak's, contain the notice at the top that informs
>
> me changes will be made only the buffer. It proposes that I have used
> the -q or --no_init_file flag, which I have not. I am launching
> Emacspeak with no parameters. Is there a config file of some sort I have
>
> to manually create before I can do this? Any other ideas as to what
> might be wrong? I have a .emacs.d folder in my home directory, but it
> seems to contain only some sort of autosave data. I'm quite stumped,
> really.
>
>     More generally, I'm fielding  suggestions for Emacs and Emacspeak
> community resources that would  be of use. I've spent too long gawking
> at Emacs's potential and not really  capitalizing on it, but given the
> breadth of Emacs some reliable outlets to get help  will be very
> appreciated. I've found the dedicated Emacspeak mailing list, but it
> seems to have very little traffic. I thought I'd bounce it off this list
>
> as well.
>
> JW
>
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