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Re: [orca-list] Using Emacs under Orca

+1 to what Christopher said but I would also add that Emacs is used for
very different needs and it does things very differently.

So While we talk about the power of Emacs, it is also important to
understand the Human Computer interfacing it does which is very
different from our regular applications.

So the screen reader, emacspeak in this case has to respond accordingly.

I use it all the time for programming and really the power is out of
this world.

Emacspeak too is state of the art.

So I guess it's more than sufficient.

Happy hacking.

Krishnakant.

On 02/03/19 8:13 PM, Christopher Chaltain via orca-list wrote:

I can see the desire to use Orca with Emacs, but the nice thing about
Emacspeak, and I presume Speechd-el, is that they're working inside
the editor itself, so you get speech that's much more targeted and
doesn't have to rely on the external screen reader figuring out what
does and doesn't need to be spoken. Of course, this means learning a
new screen reader, but there's so much to learn in Emacs anyway, I
don't find this to be a big deal. This is all my own opinion.


On 3/2/19 4:46 AM, chrys wrote:

Howdy,


  but it would
be nice if I could use emacs under a gui environment with orca and
even the mac and have this work properly.

not sure if that is what you want, but fenrir can run in an GUI
terminal as well. so this one could speak emacs for you there. But
its not orca.

cheers chrys
Am 02.03.19 um 03:44 schrieb John Covici:

Will speech-el allow to read a long text buffer and stop reading and
have the cursor be at the place where you stopped -- emacspeak does
not allow this and so I have been using speakup for this, but it would
be nice if I could use emacs under a gui environment with orca and
even the mac and have this work properly.

On Fri, 01 Mar 2019 19:49:05 -0500,
Will Estes via orca-list wrote:

I've not done a lot in lisp -- excluding my init file(s) -- but
what I've done has been fine. It's generally easy to tell what is
going on and emacs has a lot of enabling of lisp features as one
might expect.

On Friday,  1 March 2019,  6:44 pm -0600, Nolan Darilek
<nolan thewordnerd info> wrote:


Thanks, this is really great info.


Does Speechd-el read Lisp well? I remember that being something
Emacspeak
seemed to do well (I.e. it'd speak things like "2 right parens"
when reading
Lisp where many screen readers might speak only one paren.) I
think one
thing that has kept me off Lisp for a while is that it's one of
the less
accessible languages IMO, and I wondered if I'd like it if it were
more
approachable.


On 3/1/19 6:39 PM, Will Estes wrote:

You'll want to use emacs without orca. I use speechd-el because
speechd-el takes the approach of letting emacs be emacs whereas
emacspeak takes the approach of trying to make emacs do specific
things. The difference is that with speechd-el, when you want to
use a new feature of emacs (or one of its associated packages),
things generally just work. Emacspeak supports a number of things
and has its own specific ways of doing and enabling things.
That's great when it has what you want but not so much when you
go outside of that.

These days, there's no reason to look at xemacs.

On Friday,  1 March 2019,  6:29 pm -0600, Christopher Chaltain
via orca-list <orca-list gnome org> wrote:


I'm not sure I understand this statement. XEmacs is an
alternative to Emacs,
but I'm not sure what use case you're referring to where XEmacs
would be the
answer and not Emacs.


BTW, I use Emacs on the desktop with Emacspeak and not Orca. Of
course you
could also run it in a terminal or console with Emacspeak. I
haven't used
Speechd-el, so I can't compare the two. I used to use Emacs with
Emacspeak
for code development, but it's been a while.


On 3/1/19 1:52 PM, Jude DaShiell wrote:

xemacs is available as an alternative to emacs for use cases
similar to
yours if my information is correct.

On Fri, 1 Mar 2019, Nolan Darilek wrote:


Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2019 09:40:43
From: Nolan Darilek <nolan thewordnerd info>
To: Orca <orca-list gnome org>
Subject: [orca-list] Using Emacs under Orca

I've been using VSCode under Windows and am getting a bit
spoiled by it. Until
we have Electron app support under Linux, I'm considering
trying to try
getting Emacs working as similarly as I can (I.e. language
server interfaces,
code completion, etc.)


Does anyone have tips for making it work under Orca? Should I
just run it in a
terminal or is there a GUI interface, or should I turn off
Orca and use
Emacspeak/Speechd-el?


If the latter, which should I use? How do Emacspeak and
Speechd-el compare?


And is anyone currently doing this and finding it useful? I'm
currently just
using Gedit for code, but I like the integrated warnings/code
completions that
language servers provide, and I don't know that Gedit supports
this at all.


Thanks.

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