Frost wrote: > Far as I can tell, the only program speakup has problems with > is edbrowse. While you can cut from it, you can't paste into > it without crashing something. I wrote: > That's most unfortunate for old vi users such as myself. > AFIAK edbrowse just reads lines from its stdin, just like ed, > or bash, so I'm not sure why there should be a problem. I tried ed, and it crashes just as horribly as edbrowse: BUG: scheduling while atomic: /swapper/0/0x10010000 and gruesome system hang; only the off-switch works. So "something" is a bit of an understatement. (I'm running debian squeeze: aptitude show espeakup Version: 1:0.71-1 Depends: espeak, libc6 (>= 2.3.6-6~), libespeak1 (>= 1.30) ) 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