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I have been using escape followed by } and that is about the best I
can do.  I wanted something which uses indexing, but that suggestion
was apparently too difficult to do.

On Sat, 31 May 2025 13:37:30 -0400,
Andrew Leland (via emacspeak Mailing List) wrote:
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> 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
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