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  • From: John Covici <covici AT ccs.covici.com>
  • To: Robert Melton <lists AT robertmelton.com>
  • Cc: Parham Doustdar <parham90 AT gmail.com>, Emacspeaks <emacspeak AT emacspeak.net>
  • Subject: Re: [Emacspeak] loading emacspeak causes emacs itself to be non functional
  • Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2024 07:49:09 -0500
  • Organization: Covici Computer Systems

Yes, I do hear that.
In fact, since I cannot do much, when I do ps axwww|grep emacs in a
terminal window, I see the emacs process and swiftmac in a separate
process. When I kill emacs, the swiftmac process goes away also.

On Wed, 31 Jan 2024 07:42:42 -0500,
Robert Melton (via emacspeak Mailing List) wrote:
>
> [1 <text/plain; utf-8 (quoted-printable)>]
> John--
>
> Do you hear the mac or swiftmac startup speaking?
>
> > On Jan 31, 2024, at 07:40, John Covici (via emacspeak Mailing List)
> > <emacspeak AT emacspeak.net> wrote:
> >
> > Thanks for your quick response.
> >
> > I did make clean, make confiig and make whenever I changed the
> > emacspeak I was using. I did tryy to load emacspeak using esc-x
> > load-file, but I got some kind of fatal error when trying to do that.
> > Since this is a mac, would I need mplayer and sox?
> >
> > On Wed, 31 Jan 2024 06:36:08 -0500,
> > Parham Doustdar (via emacspeak Mailing List) wrote:
> >>
> >> [1 <text/plain; utf-8 (quoted-printable)>]
> >> Hi John,
> >> There could be many reasons for this, so I’m going to throw a whole
> >> bunch of steps at you to see which one works, haha.
> >> First, have you tried running `make clean` and `make` when you either go
> >> back to a release or to the git HEAD?
> >> Also, do you have Emacspeak dependencies, notably mplayer and sox
> >> installed?
> >> If you do all this, we’ll need to figure out what happens when you load
> >> Emacspeak. I’m not sure of the best way to do this given your
> >> configuration, but maybe try the emacs -Q that you did before, and do
> >> M-: (load-file “~/src/emacspeak/lisp/emacspeak-setup.el”) or whatever
> >> your emacspeak path is, and see if you can read the buffer contents with
> >> the errors, maybe from th e*Messages* buffer.
> >> Hope this gives you a few next steps to debug the issue!
> >>
> >>> On 31 Jan 2024, at 12:28, John Covici (via emacspeak Mailing List)
> >>> <emacspeak AT emacspeak.net> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Hi everyone. So, I think this started after upgrading to emacs 29.1.
> >>> What happens is that after emacspeak is loaded emacs does not work --
> >>> escape followed by x types x in the buffer. c-x followed by b does
> >>> nothing at all. Many other things don't seem to work as they should.
> >>>
> >>> So, I started on the hunt. I am using the railway casc out of
> >>> homebrew, but the same thing happens with the original emacs macport.
> >>> So, the first thing I did was from the terrminal typed
> >>> /opt/homebrew/Cellar/emacs-mac/emacs-29.1-mac-10.0/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/Emacx
> >>> -q to see if it was my settings. Sure enough, emacs was functioning,
> >>> I knew this because vo read some things and I could actually hear m-x
> >>> when I typed esc-x . So, I then fooled around with my .emacs file and
> >>> sure enough, the load of emacspeak was the problem. I was using
> >>> emacspeak from git and I went back to emacs 59, but no joy. I am
> >>> stumped after that, so any suggestions as to how to debug further
> >>> would be appreciated.
> >>>
> >>> Thanks all.
> >>>
> >>> --
> >>> Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is:
> >>> How do
> >>> you spend it?
> >>>
> >>> John Covici wb2una
> >>> covici AT ccs.covici.com
> >>> Emacspeak discussion list -- emacspeak AT emacspeak.net
> >>> To unsubscribe send email to:
> >>> emacspeak-request AT emacspeak.net with a subject of: unsubscribe
> >>
> >> [2 <text/plain; UTF-8 (8bit)>]
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> >
> > --
> > Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is:
> > How do
> > you spend it?
> >
> > John Covici wb2una
> > covici AT ccs.covici.com
> > Emacspeak discussion list -- emacspeak AT emacspeak.net
> > To unsubscribe send email to:
> > emacspeak-request AT emacspeak.net with a subject of: unsubscribe
>
> [2 <text/plain; UTF-8 (8bit)>]
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--
Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is:
How do
you spend it?

John Covici wb2una
covici AT ccs.covici.com



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