Re: [orca-list] Using an alternative editor for a text area of a form with Firefox

[Steve Holmes <steve holmes88 gmail com>]

This sounds like an interesting idea. You might try and get the firefox 
plugin to invoke emacs with the -nw command line option. On my Arch 
system, if you type 'emacs' from a gnome terminal, you will have no 
speech while emacs is running but if I type 'emacs -nw' in that same 
terminal, then you will have spoken output from Orca in the terminal. 
Might give that a try and let us know if that works. I think Iwould like 
being able to use a standard editor inside text areas like that. Hey as 
an aside, can't these plugins be configured to use gedit? I would think 
that would be less complex. gedit isn't all that bad; not as powerful as 
emacs but for editing text areas on a form, I would think that would be 
plenty adequate.

On 09/04/2009 07:44 AM, Dominique Asselineau wrote:
> Jason White wrote on Fri, Sep 04, 2009 at 09:49:48AM +1000
>    
> > Dominique Asselineau<asseline telecom-paristech fr>  wrote:
> >
> >      
> > > We tried these plugins
> > >
> > > EmbeddedEditor
> > > https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/5482
> > >
> > > It's All Text!
> > > https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4125
> > >
> > > They run fine but we do not find way that Orca runs with.
> > >        
> > That's a very vague report. What happens, exactly, and what problems (in
> > detail) did you encounter?
> >      
> Here are the details.
> OS : Linux, Debian, Lenny
> Application : Firefox 3.0
> Orca : 2.25
>
> In a text area of a web form, when I start the text editor (Emacs)
> pressing ctrl-e, nothing happens and I can't move the braille display.
> The text I enter in Emacs seems correctly treated. When I exit from
> this editor, Orca runs again and I can read the text entered.
>
> When I exit from X session, the logs do not notice errors.
>
> The EmbeddedEditor (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/5482)
> is started via Xterm and
> It's All Text! (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4125)
> is a plugin of Firefox.
>
> Thanks
>
> Dominique
>
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