Hi Jude, or is it Hey Jude ;) thanks for answering. Jude DaShiell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 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. Mine weren't that bad, but I *did* have some problems too. Emacspeak works fine here on sid and lenny, didn't try etch yet. > 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. I can connect with erc using emacs or emacspeak. Messages are displayed on the screen but not spoken. Emacspeak *does* speak other buffers, if I press <up> I *can* hear last line. I can also hear my own messages typed in. But when a message comes in, nothing is spoken. I want messages to be spoken without my interaction. > 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. See above. > 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. There is no Meta-x emacspeak, but i can M-x load-library emacspeak. It does not give me sound output, though. I also tried M-x erc and then M-x load-library emacspeak-erc, no sound either. (Not even in other buffers). > 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. So maybe I could try to change (quite a task to find out what to change in which files!) and recompile. Or maybe there's a hook in erc called whenever a new message drops in? Still searching... Robert Epprecht -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
