And abook is? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Cheryl Homiak" <chomiak@xxxxxxxxxxx> To: <blinux-list at redhat.com>; <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Sunday, May 29, 2005 11:37 AM Subject: show_cursor patch for abook > Hi all. > Yesterday I wrote to the maintainer of abook because the cursor wasn't > showing me where I was in the addressbook entries > (at least not in braille; hadn't tried with speakup). He sent me back a > patch which I believe one must use with cvs; at least I used it with > cvs. If you have cvs installed on your system, go to the directory under > which you want to have the source directory for abook (I went to > /usr/local/src) and do the following: > > cvs -d:pserver:anonymous at cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/abook login > When you are asked for a password just hit enter. > You should be returned to your shell prompt with no comment as I recall. > If you get a complaint from your cvs installation about no .cvspass file > just do it again. After this do the same command as above but instead of > login type checkout abook > and abook will be downloaded. Go into the abook directory and copy this > patch into the abook directory. Then type: > patch <abook-cursor.patch > Note the lessthan sign with no space between it and the filename. You > should see some output showing the patching is being done and then will > be returned to the shell prompt. Then do ./configure, make and make > install as you would usually when compiling. > > In your ~/.abook/abookrc put the following line: > set show_cursor=true > When you start abook you should immediately see that the cursor is now > showing to the left of your first entry and as you arrow up and down the > cursor will now show clearly where you are in your list of entries. > > If you appreciate this please email jheinonen at users.sourceforge.net and > thank him. He indicated that if it worked well he could include it in a > future release. > > I'm going to try including the patch as an attachment. If it doesn't > show up onlist I'll send again and insert it in the main message. > > I know most of you didn't need the detailed explanation but i > thought somebody might. > Enjoy!!! > > that isn't present just do it again > > -- > Cheryl > > "Where your treasure is, > there will your heart be also." > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > _______________________________________________ > Blinux-list mailing list > Blinux-list at redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
