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


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  • From: Parham Doustdar <parham90 AT gmail.com>
  • To: Greg Wocher <gtwocher AT gmail.com>
  • Cc: Robert Melton <lists AT robertmelton.com>, Jerry Sievers <gsievers19 AT comcast.net>, Emacspeaks <emacspeak AT emacspeak.net>
  • Subject: Re: [Emacspeak] Problem when editing a document with emacspeak
  • Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2024 13:38:56 +0100

Hi Greg,
Do you get this on every line? Or do you get this on a line that is very long?
From your original email, it seemed like you have to answer this whether the
line is short or long?

> On 19 Jan 2024, at 12:26, Greg Wocher (via emacspeak Mailing List)
> <emacspeak AT emacspeak.net> wrote:
>
> Hello,
> This line did not work either. The message I am gtting says read this 869
> long line Y/N. I tried doing a search on google but I did not find anything.
>
> Thanks,
> Greg Wocher
>
>> On Jan 17, 2024, at 2:34 PM, Robert Melton <lists AT robertmelton.com> 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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