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Re: [Emacspeak] Problem when editing a document with emacspeak


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  • From: Victor Tsaran <vtsaran AT gmail.com>
  • To: Robert Melton <lists AT robertmelton.com>
  • Cc: Greg Wocher <gtwocher AT gmail.com>, Jerry Sievers <gsievers19 AT comcast.net>, Emacspeaks <emacspeak AT emacspeak.net>
  • Subject: Re: [Emacspeak] Problem when editing a document with emacspeak
  • Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2024 15:47:41 -0800

Just to be sure... I don't think this is in custom settings, right?


On Wed, Jan 17, 2024 at 11:35 AM Robert Melton <emacspeak AT emacspeak.net> wrote:
All you have to do is edit your init.el and add something like

  (setq ems--speak-max-line 3000)

don't need to mess with the emacspeak folder at all.

> On Jan 17, 2024, at 13:51, Greg Wocher (via emacspeak Mailing List) <emacspeak AT emacspeak.net> wrote:
>
> Hello,
> I tried this by going into my emacspeak folder, find the file and then changing the value. It did not work to stop the message. I still see messages like this line is 869 long. Do you want emacspeak to read it? What else might I try to stop this? I edited the file in a normal editor and not from within emacs.
>
> Greg Wocher
>
>
>> On Jan 16, 2024, at 8:11 PM, Jerry Sievers (via emacspeak Mailing List) <emacspeak AT emacspeak.net> wrote:
>>
>> "Greg Wocher" (via emacspeak Mailing List) <emacspeak AT emacspeak.net>
>> writes:
>>
>>> Hello all,
>>> When I am editing a document I created on my Mac, I keep getting a
>>> message saying something about this line has X number of characters do
>>> you want emacspeak to read the line. This is happening on just about
>>> every line of the document. How can I get it to stop or can I even get
>>> it to stop? I am using emacs with emacspeak on a M1 14 inch macbook
>>> pro.
>>
>> Disclaimer: my emacspeak version  isn't uup to date... but works
>> perfectly.
>>
>> Have a look at this customizable setting that you can  adjust to your
>> taste.
>>
>> ems--speak-max-line is a variable defined in ‘emacspeak-speak.el’.
>>
>> Its value is 2000
>> Original value was 512
>>
>> Threshold for determining ‘long’ lines.
>> Emacspeak will ask for confirmation before speaking lines
>> that are longer than this length.  This is to avoid accidentally
>> opening a binary file and torturing the speech synthesizer
>> with a long string of gibberish.
>>
>>  Automatically becomes buffer-local when set.
>>  You can customize this variable.
>>
>>
>> Enjoy!
>>
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Greg Wocher
>>>
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