From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Robert D. Crawford" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Why Emacs should have a good web-browser Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2009 17:24:38 -0500 Message-ID: <878wih8yjd.fsf@comcast.net> References: <87ocrjl2r6.fsf@gmail.com> <87zlb2bwyj.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <87bpnefl73.fsf@gmail.com> <1248196427.7551.38.camel@dell-desktop.example.com> <87prbt954b.fsf@comcast.net> <87hbx5916k.fsf@comcast.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1248215126 14807 80.91.229.12 (21 Jul 2009 22:25:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2009 22:25:26 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jul 22 00:25:19 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1MTNlu-0004lm-AD for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 22 Jul 2009 00:25:18 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:50494 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MTNlt-0007qA-DM for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 21 Jul 2009 18:25:17 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MTNlo-0007q5-Lw for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 21 Jul 2009 18:25:12 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MTNlj-0007pt-5k for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 21 Jul 2009 18:25:11 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=42125 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MTNli-0007pq-VC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 21 Jul 2009 18:25:07 -0400 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:56635 helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MTNli-0003eU-Fm for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 21 Jul 2009 18:25:06 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1MTNlZ-00075b-AV for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 21 Jul 2009 22:24:57 +0000 Original-Received: from c-98-211-29-41.hsd1.tn.comcast.net ([98.211.29.41]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 21 Jul 2009 22:24:57 +0000 Original-Received: from rdc1x by c-98-211-29-41.hsd1.tn.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 21 Jul 2009 22:24:57 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-Lines: 32 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-98-211-29-41.hsd1.tn.comcast.net Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:DlfBRbUutfSzUhL3Si9hO7Hd7v0= X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:112961 Archived-At: Adam Wołk writes: >>> Conkeror can be connected both ways with Emacs using mozrepl so I can >>> imagine (but can't confirm) that one could implement a feature that >>> would send website text content directly to emacspeak. >> >> If I understand what you are saying, the text would be sent to the >> speech server but not be rendered in an emacs buffer. This will not >> work as it would prevent scrolling through the text, killing/yanking, >> sending URLs to other processes (mplayer and pdf2text come to mind). >> I'm not even sure how that would work with emacspeak as it relies on >> emacs to get its input... at least that is how I understand it. >> > I wrongly expressed what I had in mind by 'sending directly to > emacspeak'. What I was trying to say is that the text could be pulled > over from the browser to Emacs which would trigger emacspeak to read > it. This of course was a mistake on my side as I have no experience > with emacspeak and wrongly assumed how emacspeak is used and works. I > stand corrected now but still never meant to imply that Emacs would be > excluded from the browsing process. No worries. I think it was as much my misunderstanding what you were saying. I'm going to have a look at the mozrepl integration with emacspeak as soon as I get a chance to really look. Maybe I can report back with some useful information before the thread dies. Thanks again, rdc -- Robert D. Crawford rdc1x@comcast.net