You would find it easy to do cause you know Emacs I do not and do not find it easy to do. Nor do I wish to learn emacs just so I can do tasks on Linux which is where your ideas differ. Just because we differ in ideas doesn't mean your solutions should get prefrence when it comes to development. All current developments should be given the same priorities because all methods are valid ones. I will also mention I just went through the tutorial for emacs just to see if I could find out how to find those error messages and not only have I not figured out where those error messages were hiding I have now found out I can't read thestatus line yet because I don't know the correct commands in emacspeak to do so. I would much rather if emacspeak read me more stuff and allowed me to turn it off as I learned to switch from buffer to buffer and window to window. currently the learning curve for emacspeak is out rajous compared to the as you put it stupid speech software. You are speaking as an experienced user of emacs and you are not listening to those of us who are beginers with emacs. I am very good at using MsDos, Windows 95, and Linux with my external speech. Why is it then you don't understand that learning emacspeak is not an easy task to do and what is needed is software for peope that want to learn the system not the Emacs editor. Again your arguments are getting shorter because instead of addressing the arguments you dismiss them like they do not exist. You now have the chance to get the last word because I will no longer reply to your responses I feel this is getting down to a personal war level and the real issue shouldn't be priorities anyway. The real descussion should be on standards like the speech server that has been discussed so Both the Powerful Screen review software and the powerful Emacsspeak can access the devices int he same manor so that your favorit method of access is supported as well as my favorit access. No access development should be thrown up as the best other wise we end up stuck in emacs, gnome, or xwin. If I don't want to use any of those three platforms I should still be able to access the shell and be able to access the software I want to access with out having to learn emacs which I would have to do to be able to switch from buffer to buffer to see where the errors on the screen ended up or to see why the eterm buffer is crashing and making me have to restore emacs. I almost feel like I am being trapped into one environment and that brings back nasty flash backs of Microsoft windows. Ken /whistler Fri, 19 Mar 1999, Jason White wr > When you learn to install software as part of Emacs, part of the process > involves learning how to read the error messages, which basically involves > switching to the messages buffer and reading its contents. It would be > easy to define an Emacspeak command that would simply switch to the > messages buffer and read it. Thus I don't find the argument regarding the > advantage of screen readers at all persuasive. > > > > -- > To unsubscribe: mail blinux-develop-request@xxxxxxxxxx with > "unsubscribe" as the Subject. >