Albert Sten-Clanton writes: > In addition to the suggestion below, I'd very much like to hear the > characters I'm backspacing over. I asked about this a few years ago, but I > gathered that this wasn't easy to do. Any thoughts? I have speech on backspace in vim, at least I do in insert mode. You may need to set your charset to iso 8859-1 in your .vimrc. I don't recall specifically whether this problem is solved, but other nasties are solved this way. I'd love to use utf, but it isn't speaking as cleanly as 8859-1. Janina