Thanks, Janina. Al -----Original Message----- From: speakup-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca] On Behalf Of Janina Sajka Sent: Thursday, November 18, 2010 3:32 PM To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. Subject: Speech on vim backspace [Was: If bash can, why not Speakup?] 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 _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup at braille.uwo.ca http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup