Hi. If you want to stop speakup from reading the ruler in vim, make sure you have set noruler in your /etc/vim/vimrc ror your local .vimrc file. You can check to see if it fixes the problem by typing :set noruler while running vim. Kenny On Sun, Aug 03, 2003 at 11:25:14AM -0400, Janina Sajka wrote: > Got a great trick for using VIM from Bill. > > Start ex, then use vi to go into full screen mode. This avoids that > annoying automated updating of row and column location data that keeps > grabbing Speakup's speech. Wish there was a config it off, but I imagine > we'll eventually get "silent zone" support from Speakup. > > Thomas Stivers writes: > > From: Thomas Stivers <stivers_t at tomass.dyndns.org> > > > > On 08/03/03 1:18 AM -0400, Buddy Brannan wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > As to your second problem, I have a feeling (though no confirmation, > > > of course) that the highlight tracking not working as it did before > > > has something to do with making cursor tracking in general work > > > better. Now as to your backspace issue, the only text editor I know > > > for sure backspace doesn't read on is pico. Works great with nano and > > > emacs though, so I'm not sure what "most" text editors you're using. > > > > I have had the same problem with vim, but for what its worth, backspace > > works correctly in vim when running in a screen session. Just my $0.02. > > -- > > Unix is a user friendly operating system. It just picks its friends more > > carefully than others. > > Thomas Stivers e-mail: stivers_t at tomass.dyndns.org gpg: 45CBBABD > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > -- > > Janina Sajka, Director > Technology Research and Development > Governmental Relations Group > American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) > > Email: janina at afb.net Phone: (202) 408-8175 > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >