Re: [orca-list] emacs not working well even under gnome-terminal

[John covici <covici ccs covici com>]

Yep, in fact, every time I type a character, if I would let it, it
would read the whole rest of the screen!  This is in an ordinary file,
not vm.  I am using speech-dispatcher and espeak if that makes any
difference.

on Thursday 05/08/2008 David E. Price(deprice cs utah edu) wrote
> Hi,
>
> I don't use vm, so can't answer this question directly. However, if I'm 
> typing within emacs inside of a gnome-terminal, I don't see this behavior. 
> When I initially open a file, there is extra text spoken when I navigate 
> from the first line to the second line of the file (sometimes it relates to 
> the mode line, sometimes from I know not where).  However, once I move 
> beyond the first line of the file, I only get appropriate speech output 
> within the buffer. When typing within a file (both new as well as existing), 
> I receive only appropriate speech output. As I said yesterday, the 
> minibuffer and the mode line are not spoken correctly except by using 
> flat-review.
>
> Do you get this same behavior outside of vm?
>
> dave
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "John covici" <covici ccs covici com>
> To: <orca-list gnome org>
> Sent: Thursday, May 08, 2008 2:20 PM
> Subject: [orca-list] emacs not working well even under gnome-terminal
>
>
> > Hi.  I tried emacs -nw and it did read the window, and I loaded vm
> > which is one of the mail readers I use, but strange things happen when
> > I was typing a mail message -- it would read one or more lines below
> > the line I was typing on, whenever I typed a character.  I don't have
> > a clue as to why this is happening, I wonder if the cursor is doing
> > something briefly which causes this -- is there a settling time if
> > this is a momentary change?
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
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