Emacspeak discussion list

[Robert Melton <lists AT robertmelton.com>]

Devin--

Do you know what step you where missing?  

Trying to fix-up the README.md to be closer to helping it work 
out of the box for people.  BTW, completely open to contributions, 
as Windows is not my daily driver right now. 

> On Apr 11, 2024, at 12:25, Devin Prater (via emacspeak Mailing List) 
> <emacspeak AT emacspeak.net> wrote:
> 
> 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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