Re: [orca-list] Emacs editor

[Will Estes <westes575 gmail com>]

speechd-el expects speech dispatcher to be running. Other than that, I don't see any platform specific issues 
-- aside from emacs itself.That question is best directed to the speech dispatcher mailing list.

On Monday, 26 October 2015,  8:17 pm -0500, Devin Prater <r d t prater gmail com> wrote:

> Hello, could speechdl be compiled and used within other unix systems, like the Mac?
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> > On Oct 26, 2015, at 7:43 AM, Will Estes <westes575 gmail com> wrote:
> >
> > All the active development on emacspeak is on adding functionality that is emacspeak specific and 
> > generally not needed. It's also, often, things that would be better handled outside of the "screen 
> > reading" component. When I last used emacspeak, I found its build process fragile and opaque.
> >
> > speechd-el, on the other hand, simply lets emacs be emacs -- just with speech output. So you're not 
> > remembering additional screen reader specific commands other than the basics to make speech output the 
> > way you ened it.
> >
> > There is a good tutorial inside emacs itself. speechd-el explains how to get it up and running inside 
> > emacs -- which you could do outside of emacs using another editor if you'd rather. Although the trick 
> > about using emacs in non-windowing mode mentioned on the list earlier is workable, certainly as a 
> > starting point.
> >
> > > On Monday, 26 October 2015,  1:34 pm +0100, Peter Vágner <pvdeejay gmail com> wrote:
> > >
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > I think emacs is really powerfull editor.
> > >
> > > Can some of you knowing it better either give a few words on why you prefer
> > > speechd-el over emacspeak or the other way round?
> > > It appears emacspeak is more active developed than speechd-el.
> > >
> > > Also is there a howto for beginers and noobs looking at learning this?
> > >
> > > Greetings
> > >
> > > Peter
> > >
> > > > On 26.10.2015 at 09:16 Alex ARNAUD wrote:
> > > > > On 25/10/2015 22:48, Mike Dupont wrote:
> > > > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emacspeak check out emacspeak it is
> > > > > supposed to be very good and also allows for access to other things.
> > > > There are also speechd-el. You can find information here :
> > > > http://devel.freebsoft.org/speechd-el
> > > >
> > > > I use this line in my bashrc to make Emacs in CLI automatically :
> > > > alias emacs='emacs -nw'
> > > >
> > > > Best regards,
> > > > Alex.
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> > -- 
> > Will Estes
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Will Estes
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