Re: [Emacspeak] Sharpwin First (hopefully) Useable Release

[Devin Prater <r.d.t.prater@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thank you so much, this works!

On 4/11/2024 11:01 AM, Tyler Spivey (via emacspeak Mailing List) wrote:
> Here's how I got this to work. Adjust paths as needed.
>
> winget install Microsoft.DotNet.SDK.8
> winget install GNU.Emacs
> Emacs was placed in C:\Program Files\Emacs\emacs-29.3_2\bin so I had to 
> add that to path.
>
> $env:EMACSPEAK_DIR="c:\users\tyler\emacspeak"
> .\make.ps1
>
> After it built, and all the emacspeak files were compiled, I ran 
> sharpwin and made sure I could get it to talk.
> However, I can't quit it with EOF (ctrl+z), it just says Error: Object 
> reference not set to an instance of an object.
>
> By default, emacs on Windows thinks application data is my home 
> directory, because it looks for HOME which isn't set.
> I don't want that to be my home directory, so set HOME to c:\users\tyler 
> in environment variables.
>
> Next I created ~/.emacs.d/init.el:
> (setenv "DTK_PROGRAM" "sharpwin")
> (load-file (expand-file-name "~/emacspeak/lisp/emacspeak-setup.el"))
>
> That's the absolute minimal init.el I needed to get it going.
> If you send it a rate out of range, the server just won't talk. This 
> comes into play by default with the scaling factor for character echo. I 
> haven't debugged it. Far better would just be to use the maximum rate it 
> supports.
>
> On 4/11/2024 7:55 AM, "T.V Raman"" (via emacspeak Mailing List) wrote:
> > dos-impaired path-separators?
> >
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Devin Prater