I also get Emacspeak up and talking if I launch it directly from the terminal, but Jude proposed that launching Emacspeak in that manner may be why Emacs isn't letting me customize anything. That link is good, I used it to set up Voxin with Emacspeak originally.
On 10/21/2010 08:07 PM, Alex Midence wrote:
I usually just type emacspeak from the terminal and emacspeak comes right up. In vinux: ctrl+alt+f1 to open a terminal printscreen to kill speakup emacspeak Emacspeak comes right up. If you have voxin, try: emacspeak -o The -o stands for outloud. The beeps are what I get when it can't find the speaker. I tried using it with voxin and it couldn't find it. I found a "fool proof" article for getting emacspeak to talk with Voxin from a terminal: http://wiki.vinuxvirtual.org.uk/index.php?title=Here_is_a_excellent_and_foolproof_method_for_installing_Via_Voice_Voxin. Maybe that will help. I'll bre trying it myself tonight. Regards, Alex M On 10/21/10, Jared Wright<wright.jaredm@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:A couple of questions, then. 1. How do I start Emacspeak if I launch Emacs alone from my terminal? I can tell it's started, but inputting m-x> emacspeak> enter just gives me an internal beep, so that's apparently not the way to get the system talking without starting Emacspeak from the outset. 2. The customizations I was initially trying my hand at were Emacspeak ones. For starters, I want the default speaking rate to be faster than its original setting. So I guess the customizing I'm doing is for Emacspeak rather than Emacs, although I'm sure I'll want to customize Emacs as I become more comfortable with it. Does this change things at all? Thanks for the tips, JW On 10/21/2010 08:37 AM, DaShiell, Jude T. CIV NAVAIR 1490, 1, 26 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 __________ View the list's information and change your settings at //www.freelists.org/list/programmingblind __________ View the list's information and change your settings at //www.freelists.org/list/programmingblind__________ View the list's information and change your settings at //www.freelists.org/list/programmingblind__________ View the list's information and change your settings at //www.freelists.org/list/programmingblind
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