From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: power-reader-mode Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2004 16:22:12 -0700 Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <402C0AA4.7020203@yahoo.com> References: <874qtwzcyy.fsf@rechner1.ddorf.de> <402BC213.6060008@yahoo.com> <871xoz3om3.fsf@rechner1.ddorf.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1076628682 17686 80.91.224.253 (12 Feb 2004 23:31:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2004 23:31:22 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Feb 13 00:31:17 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1ArQIe-0002Sa-00 for ; Fri, 13 Feb 2004 00:31:16 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1ArQIE-0007ID-3L for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 12 Feb 2004 18:30:50 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!170.207.51.80!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 44 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 170.207.51.80 Original-X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de 1076628128 40675334 D 170.207.51.80 ([82742]) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS i86pc; en-US; rv:0.9.4.1) Gecko/20020406 Netscape6/6.2.2 X-Accept-Language: en-us Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:120861 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:16809 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:16809 Fabian Braennstroem wrote: > Kevin Rodgers writes: > > >>Fabian Braennstroem wrote: >> >> >>>as a Emacs-User I have to read a lot and now using Gnus even more :-) >>>Does a package exist which can work as a 'power-reader'? I.e. when I mark a >>>region and start the power-reader-mode, a small buffer opens, in which the >>>words are printed one after another (maybe two or three). >>> >>M-| cat RET >> > That's is a nice new function for me, but I did not mean that. I meant with one > after another, that only one word is displayed in the buffer, then, after a > certain timestep, the next word is displayed. M-| while read line; do C-q C-j for word in $line; do C-q C-j echo -e "$word \c" C-q C-j sleep 1 C-q C-j done C-q C-j echo C-q C-j done RET > I found a website, which can explain it better > > > > There, the explanation about the flash-training gives that: > "The RocketReader flash-training exercises use a unique computer-display > flash technique that forces your eyes to read sentences in a very small > period of time with very few fixations. A word or a sentence is flashed > onto the screen for a fraction of a second (as quickly as 15 thousandth > of one second). You must then correctly read the flashed word or sentence. ..." OK, it should be easy to whip up an Emacs implementation using timers... -- Kevin Rodgers