pj at pjb.com.au writes: > Janina Sajka wrote: > > 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 > > Misunderstanding this to be about vim itself :-( , I wrote: > > Presumably by writing something to somewhere in > > /sys/accessibility/speakup/ (or /proc/speakup ?) > > ... It might be possible to do it with a vim script > > And it is possible :-) if you copy spokenmode.vim (after the .sig) > into your ~/.vim/plugin/ dir (you might have to mkdir it first) > then you should see the contents of /tmp/t change according to > the editing mode. > Oh, this is very very cool! Thank you. I'm still struggling to make it automatic, though. Some concerns ... * It's not autoloading. I haveI'm still struggling to make it * automatic, though. Some concerns ... * Placing the script in .vim/plugin/ isn't enough to get the functionality working. I have to: :source .vim/plugin/spokenmode.vim Of course, this can be dropped into ~.vimrc. > It just remains to find something in /sys/accessibility/speakup/ > which switches between two suitable voices... > So, where you have "low" and "high" I can substitute a value and direct it to /sys/accessibility/speakup/soft/pitch . However, this file is owned by root (and group root). So, is there a way to add sudo to the writefile command in vim scripts? Thank you, Peter. for this lovely gem. I can tell I'm going to use it constantly. Janina > Regards, 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 > > -------------------------------------- > > " spokenmode.vim: cause Speakup to use a different tone of voice > " according to whether Vim is in insert mode or command mode > " 1.0, 2010.10.18 > " inherits much from obviousmode.vim, by Brian Lewis and Sergey Vlasov > " 1. Put spokenmode.vim in ~/.vim/plugins/ > > if &cp || exists('g:loaded_spokenmode') > finish > endif > > let s:isInsertMode = 0 > > function! s:InsertEnter() > let s:isInsertMode = 1 > call writefile(['low'], "/tmp/t") > endfunction > > function! s:InsertLeave() > let s:isInsertMode = 0 > call writefile(['high'], "/tmp/t") > endfunction > > au InsertEnter * call s:InsertEnter() > au InsertLeave * call s:InsertLeave() > > let g:loaded_spokenmode = 1 > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Janina Sajka, Phone: +1.443.300.2200 sip:janina at asterisk.rednote.net Chair, Open Accessibility janina at a11y.org Linux Foundation http://a11y.org Chair, Protocols & Formats Web Accessibility Initiative http://www.w3.org/wai/pf World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
