Re: Speaking a displayed line

[Christopher Chaltain <chaltain@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Wow, what a cool idea! I picked up this behavior with Speakup, but I 
didn't think to use it in this situation.

Unfortunately, it won't always help me since I'm running Emacs/Emacspeak 
on the desktop more and more these days.

				On 03/27/2013 09:52 PM, Alex Midence wrote:
> I approach this problem by having Speakup set to off with
> insert+numpad enter when I am in Emacspeak.  It makes it lurk in the
> background without reporting screen changes.  HOwever, if you should
> use the number pad keys, you can hear Speakup telling you what's on a
> given line, character or word.  It solves the problem nicely for me
> and without having to mess with any code either.
>
> Regards,
> Alex M
>
> On 3/27/13, Christopher Chaltain <chaltain@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Sometimes, when using Emacspeak, I want to hear just the displayed line
> > spoken instead of the whole paragraph or sentence. I've messed around
> > with a few options with word wrapping, but I haven't been able to figure
> > out how to do this. Does anyone have any pointers for me?
> >
> > The reason I want to do this is because sometimes when editing a
> > document, I want to work with some chunks of text smaller then a whole
> > paragraph. If I'm wordsmithing a paragraph of a letter, I want to just
> > hear the currently displayed line when using the arrow keys, instead of
> > having to listen to the whole paragraph when adjusting a word or two in
> > the middle. Maybe there's a better way to do this editing, so I'm open
> > to any suggestions.
> >
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> > Christopher (CJ)
> > chaltain at Gmail
> >
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