[Emacspeak] Re: Disable pronouncing CAPS globally

[Jim Green <2greensinva@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

No, I had no luck either.  But, I thought it might be because I was on an
ole Debian machine.

But, thanks for the try Devin.

Jim


On Fri, 28 Jan 2022, Edhoari Setiyoso via Emacspeak wrote:

> Hi Jim,
>
>
> I tried that and did not work. Btw, perhaps what you meant is C-u C-e d c
> (dtk-toggle-caps)
>
> When I open another buffer, it still pronounce Cap.
>
>
> Btw, I'm on emacs 28.0 and emacspeak 55
>
> On 1/27/22 23:10, Jim Green via Emacspeak wrote:
> > I'm no expert, but have that problem.  After starting Emacs and Emacspeak,
> > I hold down the control key and hit the letter u.  That makes the
> > following command good for the session  It is C-u.
> >
> > Then do C-e C-d C-s, and Emacspeak will stop saying "capitol," until next
> > boot up.
> >
> > I'm sure this could be changed in the Emacspeak settings, but I don't know
> > how.  HTH.
> >
> > Jim
> >
> >
> >
> > On Thu, 27 Jan 2022, Tim Cross via Emacspeak wrote:
> >
> > > Edhoari Setiyoso via Emacspeak <emacspeak(a)emacspeak.org> writes:
> > >
> > > > Hi list,
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > I tried emacspeak 55 and could not turn off pronounciation of CAPS. What
> > > > I meant
> > > > is I want to disable this feature globally.
> > > >
> > > > I can set the value of dtk-caps to nil globally using prefix but when I
> > > > open new
> > > > buffer, it went back.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Please advice.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > What speech server are you using? I seem to remember there was an issue
> > > with the espeak speech server relating to this (but I could be wrong).
> > >
> > > You can put
> > >
> > > (setq-default dtk-caps nil)
> > >
> > > in you emacs init file (before you load Emacspeak) to set the default
> > > value to nil.
> > >
> > > The dtk-caps variable is a buffer local variable (i.e. each buffer has
> > > its own independent version of this variable). Using setq-default should
> > > set the default for all new instances of the variable in newly created
> > > buffers (I think using just setq will only set the version in the
> > > current buffer). However, if this is an issue specific to the espeak
> > > server, it is possible even using setq-default won't work and someone
> > > will need to look at the server code to see why it isn't working.
> > > Problem is, I'm not sure anyhone who is using the espeak server has
> > > stepped up to maintain it, so if a fix is required, it might be some
> > > time before it happens.
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