> Hi Dan, > > > Use speakup if you will be using the command line heavily -- I believe > > it comes with vinux, but if not you'll have to install the modules > > yourself. (I don't use vinux.) > > Do you know if Speakup works with a software synthesizer? yes, it works very well with espeak, and can support other software synths through speech-dispatcher. > > > - install MySQL, Apache2, Perl, and use cpan for compiling and > > installing some perl modules; > > > Apt can install most if not all of these. > > I can compile them, no problem, but I would like to be able to read the > console for seeing at least the last screen displayed, for viewing errors... > but I guess Speakup can do this. unless you have a very good reason use the packagemanager. The packagemanager will deal with the dependencies for you, and will generally make your life a lot easier. If you really want to control compile options and compile from source you might want to look into gentoo. But yes speakup is a good console screen reader, and compiling will be possible if necessary. > > > - use an accessible editor, an accessible browser and an accessible > > email client. > > > I'm a fan of command line apps -- I like emacs, as it can do a lot > > eg. automatically do your indentation. Also you should use emacspeak > > with it to take advantage of all it's features. Vi, nano and most of the > > other editors are fine with speakup, emacs will work with speakup, but > > you'll have a better experience with emacspeak. > > Well, I have tried Emacspeak in the past but I didn't find it nice enough. I > don't like to need remembering anything, and I like to find all the features > the editor offers in menus or in other ways, but not in help files. > A Linux clone of TextPad or EditPlus or UltraEdit would be very good. > > Nano is nice, but it doesn't use (as far as I know) the possibility of > finding/replacing using regular expressions, the possibility of running the > currently opened file with a certain interpreter and storing the results > from STDOUT and STDERR in another accessible window, and many other missing > features. > > My biggest fear is that I won't find a good editor under Linux, but only > extremes - powerful editors like Emacs and vi that have a very old and > strange interface, or easy to use editors like nano or pico that don't have > more features than Notepad. > > Octavian > > > _______________________________________________ > Blinux-list mailing list > Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list > _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list