Hi Michael, I think the bugs you found aren't really bugs in vim or Speakup, but rather something related to Curses. Samuel or another sighted person can verify my guess, but I've noticed consistently that pressing the space bar in Mutt is silent and I sometimes get similar behavior with the backspace. It is fine in Nano and most apps, but when entering an address in Mutt or entering a message subject, the silent space bar always happens. I don't remember what program has the silent backspace but I think that might be Mutt also. I think Speakup is doing exactly what it's supposed to do but for some reason, the characters don't appear where it thinks the cursor is. While we're on the subject, I know this isn't a Speakup bug but is also related to Curses. When I'm in Qemu, I have a very bad problem with the same text being repeated endlessly until Speakup times out because the synth can't keep up. This is easily reproducable, just use something like this: qemu -kernel-qemu -curses -boot d -cdrom test.iso In my case, I'm replacing test.iso with System Rescue CD 1.2.0. It reads all the boot messages several times over and over. That also happens in dosemu and FreeDOS. It's better without the -kernel-qemu switch but the emulation is slower. I know it isn't related to Speakup because the same thing happens in ssh under Cygwin. Is there any way to set Curses or Qemu to not refresh the screen as much? If not, is there a way I can set Speakup to only read the screen every few seconds? I fear this will only get worse with faster processors and better and faster virtualization technology.
