William Hubbs wrote: > You can disable that line by putting the following line in your > ~/.vimrc: set noruler Thank you :-) > > > 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... > Yes, something like this would take modifications to vim to make > it communicate to speakup some how, and I'm not sure what that > would involve since I haven't looked at the vim code at all. Presumably by writing something to somewhere in /sys/accessibility/speakup/ (or /proc/speakup ?) I don't see a /sys/accessibility/speakup/pitch but something else might do. It might be possible to do it with a vim script http://www.vim.org/scripts/ http://vim.sf.net and then eventually to get that into the vim-scripts package... Peter 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