Or, like JFW, you can add a feature to speakup that let's you hit a shift key and scip ahead in the text. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Charles Hallenbeck" <hallenbeck@xxxxxxxxxxx> To: "Speakup Distribution List" <speakup at speech.braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2002 9:11 AM Subject: pine and the char set thing > I use pine and I get to see all those char set things too, but I > do not mind them a lot. What happens is that pine lets you > configure just one char set as its "official" char set, and when > an arriving message uses a different one, it warns you about it. > Perhaps that should be elevated to a "feature" in pine that could > be turned on or off, but right now it is a fixed behavior. > > Users of speakup often listen to their mail "directly" - i.e., > spontaneously, as it is placed on the screen. When that happens, > you cannot just skip ahead three or four lines to get past those > char set messages. What you can do is to kill the speech when > those messages start to appear, but then you lose your place and > must use review keys to go back and find what you would have > heard if you had just waited for the messages to be read and > proceed forward with the text. I think some folks do not rely on > the direct or spontaneous mode, but use review for everything. > They can easily kill a line they do not want to hear by just > hitting the "next line please" key. They will not lose their > place in the material the way people would who rely on direct > reading. > > Anyway I kind of enjoy hearing those messages; it lets me know > who is still using Windows and who has kicked the habit. :-) If > David boehlman and others ever figure out how to fix their > Outlook Express to use the same char set as Pine is using, they > will in effect be "passing" and we will never ever know for > sure!!! > > So even if it wastes five or six seconds per email, I cannot get > excited about those pesky messages. If it becomes a selectable > feature of Pine in a future release, so that it could be turned > off, I will probably leave mine turned on. People ought to be > able to use the char set of their choosing as long as it does not > interfere with the content of their messages. > > Chuck > > > Visit me now at http://www.valstar.net/~hallenbeck > The Moon is New > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
