Emacspeak discussion list

[Andrew Leland <aleland AT gmail.com>]

Thanks for looking into that for me, Victor. I tried c-e c-<ret>, then a 
space bar after the prompt, but it doesn’t work — as soon as I hit space the 
first time, I hear “exiting continuous mode,” then the  second time I hit it 
I’m typing a blank space in my text.

I’m finding that emacspeak-speak-skim-buffer doesn’t work either: same issue 
as above, more or less: I just hear “exiting continuous mode” and “space 
repeats”. 

I commented out everything that’s not Emacspeak-related from my init.el (just 
using the defaults that were in the official install instructions for 
Emacspeak and SwiftMac) and still have the problem, so unless I’ve set things 
up incorrectly (everything else seems to work well tho) i don’t think it’s a 
package conflict… 

In addition to searching for a solution to getting speak-continuously to 
work, I’m curious how other people are reading and editing long documents 
without this function (if you are). Do you just navigate by 
line/sentence/paragraph and review that way? Or do you tend to call 
speak-rest-of-buffer and then if you find something you want to edit, do an 
I-search or otherwise page down to get point to the spot you stopped at? Or 
some other awesome workflow you’d be willing to share? :grin:

I feel very excited by the prospect of making Emacspeak my daily driver, but 
this missing functionality is really slowing me down!

With thanks,
Andrew