I don't thinkex or vim -e uses the cursor at all, or even ncurses. I have used both vim and ex successfully with speakup -- you just have to silence the window where it reads out the position. pj at pjb.com.au wrote: > Devon Stewart wrote: > > Does vim have a line-editor mode? > > It depends what you mean; there is, like I say, > vim -c 'set lines=2' > but it's still a curses app, so it still speaks voluminous garbage > and takes over the whole screen so you can't use a screen-reader > to see what's been happening. Might as well use vim. > I don't think vim has any non-curses modes. > These days ex is usually a symlink to vim -e which is still > a curses app; anyway, then you should be using edbrowse. > > Janina Sajka wrote: > > Hmmm, but one can do this all in vim already. > > Oh yes, vibe is only ever going to be a small subset of vim. > But vim speaks lots of garbage, and takes over the whole screen etc. > > I'm still fixing lots of vibe bugs within one version number, > I'll become more disciplined later... > http://www.pjb.com.au/blin/free/vibe > > Peter > > http://www.pjb.com.au pj at pjb.com.au (03) 6278 9410 > "Follow the charge, not the particle." -- Richard Feynman > from The Theory of Positrons, Physical Review, 1949 > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at linux-speakup.org > http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici covici at ccs.covici.com
