Hi Mohammad, that is a bug, which I thought had been addressed in the sources. Luckily, it is easily fixed. Add the following line to your .emacs.el file before the line to load emacspeak-setup.el (setq tts-default-voice 'alex) Mohammed Alderweesh <alderweesh.m(a)gmail.com> writes: > Hi Tim, > > Thank you for the great efforts> I tried using the .emacs.el you edited, but still with no luck. I tried copying th stack trace, but I was not able to. I > get the following error: > > Warning (initialization): An error occurred while loading ‘/Users/mohammad/.emacs.el’: > > Symbol's value as variable is void: tts-default-voice > > To ensure normal operation, you should investigate and remove the > cause of the error in your initialization file. Start Emacs with > the ‘--debug-init’ option to view a complete error backtrace. > > Note that now when I move by character, emacspeak speaks the characters. > > Thank you. > > Mohammed > > On 9 Ram. 1442 AH, at 9:40 AM, Tim Cross <theophilusx(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > OK, I have attached a modified .emac.el file. Replace your version with > the attached version and see if that works better. > > If you still get errors, try running emacs with the debug-init flag i.e. > > emacs --debug-init > > If there is an error, it will provide a backtrace, which will help > identify where the problem is. > > The other thing you should do is verify that the 'mac' speech server is > working. Change to the servers directory and run it. You should here it > speak. Use Ctl-c to exit. i.e. > > cd ~/emacspeak/servers > ./mac > > If the 'mac' script is not executable, you will need to make it > executable with > > chmod u+x ./mac > > What I have done is just add a couple of lines to the .emacs.el file. > > - Add/set the environment variable EMACSPEAK_DIR to the path to the root > of your emacspeak source tree > > - Add/set the environment variable DTK_PROGRAM to 'mac'. The default > speech server is espeak and while you can install and build espeak on > the mac, you don't need to. The 'mac' server uses the macOS built-in > TTS (same as voiceOver). > > - Add the emacspeak lisp dir to the load path. Strictly speaking, I'm > not sure if you need this as I think it might be done by > emacspeak-startup.el, but no harm in making sure. > > With luck, this should get you working. There will be other things you > will want to configure/customize, like speech rate, auditory icons etc, > but those are not critical. > > Note also that if you see 'warnings' from emacs, don't worry too much > about them. They are only warnings, not errors and while it is good to > get rid of them, they don't always cause harm. They are the sort of > thing you can investigate more once your running. > > <mohammad.el> > Mohammed Alderweesh <alderweesh.m(a)gmail.com> writes: > > /Users/mohammad/emacspeak > > Here they are... > > On Wed, Apr 21, 2021 at 7:36 AM Tim Cross <theophilusx(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > You might not believe it, but I think we are getting closer! > > Can you attach a copy of your .emacs.el file? Also, can you cd into the > emacspeak lisp directory and execute pwd and paste that it so I know > what the full path is to your emacspeak install? > > Mohammed Alderweesh <alderweesh.m(a)gmail.com> writes: > > Hi Victor and Tim, > I cloned the git repo from github. > > I don’t know how to configure the voice server. > > I replaced make-thread with funcall, and recompiled, but it did not work > I also uninstalled emacs and installed the version of emacs suggested by Tim, and it is still not working > > I get the following error: > > Warning (initialization): An error occurred while loading ‘/Users/mohammad/.emacs.el’: > > error: Specified program for new process is a directory > > To ensure normal operation, you should investigate and remove the > cause of the error in your initialization file. Start Emacs with > the ‘--debug-init’ option to view a complete error backtrace. > > Thank you > Mohammed > > On Wed, Apr 21, 2021 at 4:03 AM Tim Cross <theophilusx(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > Just to be clear, you don't need to be a user of macPorts. The > railwaycat cask is a homebrew cask, so it is really just another > homebrew formula. Once installed, brew update/upgrade works just the > same as if you were using the 'native' emacs build. > > Victor Tsaran <vtsaran(a)gmail.com> writes: > > Sure, that's probably true if you are a user of MacPorts. :) > > On Tue, Apr 20, 2021 at 5:43 PM Tim Cross <theophilusx(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi Victor, > > good point. I had forgotten about this issue, primarily because I'm not > impacted by it. > > Note that the only 'solution' is not just editing to remove calls to > make-thread and replace with funcall. You can also install the mac-ports > version of emacs using the railwaycat/emacsport/emacs-mac cask. I've > been using this version without issue and without needing to modify > emacspeak. I think it also has some other advantages and find it works > better on the mac than a native build - for example, it has a setting > which allows you to turn off voiceOver when running emacs, so you can > avoid the issue of voiceOver and emacspeak fighting against each other > an not need to turn off voiceOver when using emacspeak. It also seems to > integrate better with the rest of macOS and I don't need to do anything > 'special' to get command/option keys working consistently. I've found no > compatibility issues or noticed anything negative compared to using the > native build. It is also at version 27.2. > > See https://github.com/railwaycat/homebrew-emacsmacport for details on > how to use this formula with homebrew. You need to remove any other > emacs installed via homebrew before installing it. > > Victor Tsaran <vtsaran(a)gmail.com> writes: > > Hello Mohammed! > I filed a bug against Emacs developers on precisely this issue. We have discussed it just a few weeks ago. > While they are figuring out the cause, which I hope will happen soon or not at all, the only fix that worked is what Raman > suggested in > > one > > of > > his > > earlier messages. Namely: > > 1. Open emacspeak.el in your emacspeak/lisp directory. > 2. Substitute any calls of "make-thread" with "funcall" (there should be only two occurrences), then save. > 3. Recompile by running "make emacspeak" in your "emacspeak" directory. > You should now be good to go in both Terminal as well the GUI, i.e. if you decide to run Emacs app from the Applications > folder. > > Hope this helps. > Victor > > On Tue, Apr 20, 2021 at 4:30 PM Mohammed Alderweesh <alderweesh.m(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > Here is the output of echo $path > > /usr/local/bin /usr/bin /bin /usr/sbin /sbin > > and here is the output of which emacs: > > /usr/local/bin/emacs > > Note that when I open emacs without loading emacspeak-setup.el, I get the emacs version is 27.2. > > Thank you. > > Mohammed > > On Wed, Apr 21, 2021 at 1:23 AM Tim Cross <theophilusx(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > I think we first need to verify that your path variable is correct and > your running the version of emacs installed by homebrew. Can you run in > a terminal the following commands and paste the output in a reply? > > echo $PATH > > which emacs > > and then try running > > /usr/local/bin/emacs > > and see if that makes any difference. > > Mohammed Alderweesh <alderweesh.m(a)gmail.com> writes: > > Hi Tim, > > I used: > > brew install -cask emacs > > Then, I built emacspeak using: > > make config > make emacspeak > > Then, I added the following to .emacs.el: > > (load-file “~/emacspeak/lisp/emacspeak-setup.el”) > When I remove this line from the .emacs.el, emacs works normally. > > The version of emacs is 27.2 > When I use the command > Emacs > > I get the error mentioned in the last email. > When I use the command: > > emacspeak > > I get command not found. > > Thank you > Mohammed > > On Tue, Apr 20, 2021 at 8:16 AM Tim Cross <theophilusx(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > How did you install Emacs? What version is it? > > What is the exact command your running in the terminal to start emacsthe > > What do you have in your emacs init file? > > This looks like a low level emacs error and not specific to emacspeak. > The error seems related to memory allocation. My guess is that the build > of emacs has not worked correctly. > > Make sure your running a recent version of Emacs (macOS comes with a > very old version of Emacs which will not work with emacspeak). > > Mohammed Alderweesh <alderweesh.m(a)gmail.com> writes: > > Hello list, > > My name is Mohammed Alderweesh. This is my first time posting to this list. I am trying to run emacs on Mac os > x, I installed the > > required > > packages, > > but when I try running it from the terminal I get the following error: > > 2021-04-20 05:17:01.372 Emacs-x86_64-10_14[10274:228475] Warning: Expected min height of view: > (<NSButton: > > 0x7fbe575bced0>) to be > > less > > than or equal to 30 but got a height of 32.000000. This error will be logged once per view in violation. > > 2021-04-20 05:17:01.377 Emacs-x86_64-10_14[10274:228475] Warning: Expected min height of view: > (<NSButton: > > 0x7fbe576376c0>) to be > > less > > than or equal to 30 but got a height of 32.000000. This error will be logged once per view in violation. > > Emacs-x86_64-10_14(10274,0x700005a4f000) malloc: *** error for object 0x7000062509f8: pointer being freed > was not allocated > > Emacs-x86_64-10_14(10274,0x700005a4f000) malloc: *** set a breakpoint in malloc_error_break to debug > > Fatal error 4: Illegal instruction > > zsh: abort emacs > > Can you please help me into how to run the software? > > Thank you. > > Mohammed > > _______________________________________________ > Emacspeak mailing list -- emacspeak(a)emacspeak.org > To unsubscribe send an email to emacspeak-leave(a)emacspeak.org > > -- > Tim Cross > _______________________________________________ > Emacspeak mailing list -- emacspeak(a)emacspeak.org > To unsubscribe send an email to emacspeak-leave(a)emacspeak.org > > -- > Tim Cross > > _______________________________________________ > Emacspeak mailing list -- emacspeak(a)emacspeak.org > To unsubscribe send an email to emacspeak-leave(a)emacspeak.org > > -- > Tim Cross > > -- > Tim Cross > > -- > Tim Cross > > [4. application/emacs-lisp; .emacs.el]... > > -- > Tim Cross -- Tim Cross
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