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

[John covici <covici ccs covici com>]

on Thursday 05/08/2008 David E. Price(deprice cs utah edu) wrote
> Hi,
>
> I can't see how SD and espeak would be causing this problem.  Maybe someone 
> else will.  However, it would help everyone to know some information about 
> your system.
>
> Which Linux distribution and version?
Gentoo up to date as of about 5 days ago.
> Which version of gnome-terminal? To find this out, in gnome-terminal type 
> the following:
> $ gnome-terminal --version
2.22.1
> Which version of emacs? (To find this out, in gnome-terminal type the 
> following:
> $ emacs --version
22.0.95

> Which version of Orca?  To find this out, in gnome-terminal type the 
> following:
> $ orca --version
2.22.1
> dave
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "John covici" <covici ccs covici com>
> To: "David E. Price" <deprice cs utah edu>
> Cc: <covici ccs covici com>; <orca-list gnome org>
> Sent: Thursday, May 08, 2008 3:42 PM
> Subject: Re: [orca-list] emacs not working well even under gnome-terminal
>
>
> > 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.
> > > >
> > > > -- 
> > > > Your life is like a penny.  You're going to lose it.  The question is:
> > > > How do
> > > > you spend it?
> > > >
> > > >         John Covici
> > > >         covici ccs covici com
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> >
> > -- 
> > Your life is like a penny.  You're going to lose it.  The question is:
> > How do
> > you spend it?
> >
> >         John Covici
> >         covici ccs covici com

-- 
Your life is like a penny.  You're going to lose it.  The question is:
How do
you spend it?

         John Covici
         covici ccs covici com