re: emacspeak with erc on debian

[Jude DaShiell]

I'm surprised anyone is able to use emacs let alone emacspeak on anything 
later than the sarge distribution of debian given my own experiences. 
I'm happy for whoever can manage to do this though.  Things to try. 
First install ircII on your system and get out and connected to a known 
irc address and make sure you can hear incoming messages.  This is 
important since you need a proved connection to point erc at with all 
necessary and correct login credentials in place.  Once done, I suggest 
trying two alternate start up procedures for emacspeak.  First is to run 
emacspeak from the command line with whatever switches you normally feed 
it.  Then try to run erc and connect to the known good irc channel and see 
if incoming messages get spoken.  If not, try a second approach.  At the 
command line run emacs -nw which will turn off any use of xwindows or 
attempt to use xwindows.  Next mx-emacspeak and get that going.  Next 
mx-erc and get that going.  Then go to the known good irc channel and see 
what can be heard if anything in terms of incoming messages.  In C, 
there's a cprintf() function which when used screen readers don't get any 
printing sent them.  It's the printf() function in C that gets proper 
screen writing done though.  I don't know if lisp equivalents exist though 
they may so this could be part of your problem too, the erc package was 
built with the wrong screen writing commands.


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