Janina Sajka wrote: > I've been happily using vim for years. How do you cope with the endlessly-updating bottom line?, like: "497L, 15593C 450,2 93%" I find speakup is in general difficult with curses applications because of their screen-update optimisation. The characters don't necessarily come out in a text-related order. > My biggest complaint is that I need to be ultra-careful to > track whether I'm in insert or command mode, i.e. it would > sure help if Speakup could give me a differently pitched voice Good point :-) It might need some help from the vim folk... Peter Billam http://www.pjb.com.au pj at pjb.com.au (03) 6278 9410 "Was der Meister nicht kann, verm?cht es der Knabe, h?tt er ihm immer gehorcht?" Siegfried to Mime, from Act 1 Scene 2