Hello, The index format in Pine can be tweaked in the pine setup screen. I don't remember exactly what the parameter is called, but it is there. On Tue, 2 Jan 2001, Janina Sajka wrote: > Hello All -- and Happy New Year to all: > > Like many of you, I've become comfortable with compiling applications and > rolling out linux kernels with Speakup compiled in. Well, OK, I've become > somewhat comfortable with the basics. In other words, I'm ready to take > the next tentative step. For me, this means tweaking some of my pet peaves > with my computer into behaving like I want them to behave, rather than > living with the defaults. > > I have two tweaks that I want to put into effect: > > 1.) The system bell stinks, imho. I hate that 1 kHz (or whatever) tone > that one gets with Ctrl-G, ASCII char 7, or %BELL, or whatever the heck > it's called in one programming environment or other. I want something > else. The something else I want I can already effect in a simple shell > script. Where and how do I make this the default? I presume this is > somewhere in the kernel code as a call of some sort that I would > substitute my own call with. Gak, what terrible grammar, but I suspect > you'll get the idea; > > 2.) I intend to keep using Pine. Because I have Caldera on my portable > system, I have to compile from sources if I want to upgrade to the latest > and greatest. This gives me the opportunity to tweak, hopefully, how the > Pine index is displayed. In other words, I want to change the order of > summary info Pine will display when a folder's index is on screen; > > Any advice on the above would be greatly appreciated. > -- > > Janina Sajka, Director > Technology Research and Development > Governmental Relations Group > American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) > > janina at afb.net > (202) 408-8175 > http://www.afb.org/gov.html > > > The invention of the printing press has been named the crowning > achievement of the past millennium. Yet, electronic publishing will soon > eclipse it. Read our White Paper: "Surpassing Gutenberg" available at: > > http://www.afb.org/ebook.html > > Are you developing software? Make it accessible to blind computer users. > Read http://www.afb.org/technology/accessapp.html to learn how. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
