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


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  • From: Robert Melton <lists AT robertmelton.com>
  • To: Devin Prater <r.d.t.prater AT gmail.com>
  • Cc: Tyler Spivey <tspivey AT pcdesk.net>, Emacspeaks <emacspeak AT emacspeak.net>
  • Subject: Re: [Emacspeak] Sharpwin First (hopefully) Useable Release
  • Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2024 16:21:38 -0400

Devin--

The C-x C-c and C-x left and C-x right not speaking buffer names, I
can not reproduce either of these issues with my version of Emacs.

Mine is the chocolatey version 29.2. I still see some strange stuff,
but both those things work as expected.

> On Apr 11, 2024, at 15:57, Devin Prater (via emacspeak Mailing List)
> <emacspeak AT emacspeak.net> wrote:
>
> Now, the only big issues so far: C-x C-c doesn't work to close Emacs, C-x
> right and C-x Left don't speak when changing buffers, but the buffers do
> change.
>
> On 4/11/2024 11:26 AM, Robert Melton wrote:
>> 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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>>> --
>>> Devin Prater
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>> --
>> Robert "robertmeta" Melton
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>

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