Re: [orca-list] Orca and console text editors

[Nolan Darilek <nolan thewordnerd info>]

Interesting, I don't have cursor-tracking issues in vim that I know of. 
Sometimes I get excess spoken text, which I think is more due to VTE 
than to Orca. I'm considering using a console screen reader just in 
gnome-terminal and disabling Orca for that when I need to use a console 
editor. Otherwise, I'm not sure what Orca can do, since it can't really 
switch scripts based on the presence of console apps (that I know of 
anyway.)


I'd like to see what might be done with Kakoune once I figure out how to 
get *its* cursor tracking working. Shell commands get access to things 
like the current selection, so it might be possible to pipe that through 
Orca's HTTP speech interface to speak selection changes as Emacspeak 
does. Then you'd have a somewhat more friendly console editing 
expierience, albeit only from Kak. My biggest Vim issue is that Orca 
can't know about its selection, so it's hard to intelligently speak with 
the level of depth that something like Emacspeak does by virtue of 
having access to the entire document. It's probably possible to improve 
that with plugins, but learning Vimscript hasn't been something I've 
invested lots of effort into, and I haven't explored writing Neovim 
plugins over its msgpack interface.



On 04/23/2017 01:04 PM, James Austin wrote:
> Hi everyone
>
> I am still having no luck with getting Speakup to run.  So I wondered 
> if anyone could please give me some advice on using VIM or similar 
> with Orca? Is there a special way to get the cursor to track and to 
> get Orca to distinguish between movement, editing commands and input ?
>
> Thank you
>
> Best wishes
>
> James
>
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