[orca-list] Editing with Orca: This is driving me to drinkin!

["Chris Gilland" <cgilland1 carolina rr com>]

OK, at first, I thought this might be some sort of problem with the way that 
Voxin interfaced with Speech-Dispatcher, but, that doesn't appear to after 
all, be the case.  I switched to ESpeak, and also to Festival, and in all 
cases easily reproduced the problem.  Basically, kto make a long story 
short, this all started when I put Wubi on my desktop computer.  Remember 
when I was having all those problems with checking e-mail?  Which, btw, 90% 
of them have been resolved... Well, if I typed a multi line document, I 
don't care if this was in Thunderbird, Evolution, the Open Office word 
Processor, It didn't matter, G Edit, whatever... If I type a multi line 
page, by the time I get to about the 3rd line of text, I can't audibly 
backspace if I make errors.  I mean, ok, visually it is doing exactly as it 
should.  I know this for several reasons, one: a sighted person told me, 2, 
if I up, down, left, or right arrow, those ways of navigating work, but I 
can't backspace out a few letters if I hit a wrong one.  If I try, Orca says 
literally absolutely nothing.  there is no beep from the internal speaker, 
nor sound device, no error message given, it, just simply, will, not, go.

So, how do I edit then?  Well?  Honestly? very painfully.  I literally have 
to mentally know what I'm back spacing, or, use my arrow keys, or move word 
by word with ctrl+left and right arrow.  Find the characters I want to 
delete, then hit the delete key.  As I do that and a new character goes 
under my insertion point, those! do! read.  I can't even select text.  If I 
try, again, orca says nothing.  And, to top off the weirdness, get a load a 
this!  If in a terminal, I use Speakup, from the included instlalation from 
Vinux, 3.0, which btw, seems to be using speech dispatcher for it's speech 
system, I have the same issue.  If I use pico, or nano, or such, same 
ordeal.  Please can someone tell me why this may be happenning and more so, 
how I may can fix it, as this is driving me to wanna shoot this darn 
computer.  Before anyone can ask, no it's not just Wubi.  As I said, I did 
this both with Wubi, and with Vinux 3.0, and actually, come to think of it, 
I even tried this with Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid.  Although all these other 
distros: Wubi, and Vinux 3.0 are both based around Ubuntu Lucid, so... 
yeah...

Anyway, has anyone else seen this, and if so, how did you fix it? If you 
didn't, then has anyone reported it? If not, how can we go about doing so?

The totally! puzzled Chris, who wants answers.  LOL!