Re: Emacspeak: Specific and General Inquiries
- From: Alex Midence <alex.midence@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2010 11:05:10 -0500
Jared, are you using espeak with emacspeak? I keep having the ends of
lines chop off midword. Reading character by character is not good
either since it just gets interrupted mid syllable. If I didn't ahve
a braille display I wouldn't be ebel ty make out that eh-- is really
ehs for s and ah-- is really arr for r. Hope I'm making sense. It's
like it's on perpetual speech interrupt.
Alex M
On 10/21/10, Alex Midence <alex.midence@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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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