-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I experience this same problem; except, when backspacing over spaces, I hear space. On Sat, May 20, 2006 at 10:35:23AM -0400, propaine wrote: > Greetings! I'm new to this list. I can't really say I'm "new" to Linux, > but I'm sure in the early stages of learning to use it. In case it helps > with my questions, I'm using Fedora 2 with the Speakup-modified kernel, > installed for me in the fall of 2004 where I bought the computer. (Upgrade > matters may be for another time. The Linux box is not yet on the Internet.) > > I've taken to using VIM lately. At the moment, my main complaint about it > is that, when I use the backspace key, I rarely hear what I'm deleting, so I > have to check where I am with the Speakup reading keys. I say "rarely," > because a few times I did hear what I was backspacing over, but have not > figured out what cause it to happen in the hope of getting it all the time. > Does anybody know whether or how I can do this? > > In Emacs, I do hear what I'm backspacing over, but notice another keystroke > silence. When I use, say, control-f or control-n to move the cursor to the > next character or line, I hear nothing most of the time: only the arrow > keys talk for such moves. I do hear the new screen with control-v, and I > think sometimes enough changes on the screen from time to time for control-n > to produce speech, but otherwise these supposedly handy keystrokes don't > look real handy with speech. Could the root of this be similar or related > to the root of my VIM keystroke question? > > Thank you very much for whatever anybody can tell me. > > Propaine > > p.s. The name I use here is a way of expressing my regard for Tom Paine. I > bet he'd have been at least in sympathy with the free software movement. > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFEbz8CwamDI1Gy2GIRAhSmAKC68Dn10M7aujI0MuF5lMfRz8SB+gCfWip3 ieN3MOWRePQYBpHeR3wzQVI= =NJtA -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
