* easy customization? I don't think so
@ 2014-09-15 9:51 Jude DaShiell
2014-09-15 11:52 ` Cobe
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From: Jude DaShiell @ 2014-09-15 9:51 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: help-gnu-emacs
One thing that would help easy customization get easy would be for emacs
to announce controls when point lands on them. Some of us can't see color
let alone anything else. Fortunately I have a backup up my .emacs file in
the highly probable event I manage to make a real mess of it. Some of us
believe it or not are using computers without a mouse or screen just
running off the screen reader. This is why I had done several hand edits
of my .emacs file to get it where it is now. Earlier I tried using
newsticker with the emacs-git version and found no support for
configuration of that program in the info pages outside of M-x customize
group newsticker. When I opened that group, I couldn't figure out if I
wanted to add the emacsworld feed how to do it or where to do it. No help
from google on this one either. An iPhone app to date rssrunner was the
only news reader able to add emacsworld to it and bring up articles. The
snownews and canto newsreaders both failed so I got curious about
newsticker and that's what ran me into all of these neat discoveries. Has
emacs got any "don't leave home without them" settings for totally blind
users that are touch typists?
jude <jdashiel@shellworld.net>
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* Re: easy customization? I don't think so
2014-09-15 9:51 easy customization? I don't think so Jude DaShiell
@ 2014-09-15 11:52 ` Cobe
2014-09-15 19:31 ` Jude DaShiell
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From: Cobe @ 2014-09-15 11:52 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Jude DaShiell; +Cc: help-gnu-emacs
guess the best way to improve easy customisation (not that i use it) is
to file suggestions in a bug report
i'm neither a big GNUS user nor RSS reader but from memory GNUS supports
fetching RSS feeds; have you tried that?
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* Re: easy customization? I don't think so
2014-09-15 11:52 ` Cobe
@ 2014-09-15 19:31 ` Jude DaShiell
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From: Jude DaShiell @ 2014-09-15 19:31 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Cobe; +Cc: help-gnu-emacs
gnus which I have working will be the next thing I try to access rss
stuff. I found M-x customize-browse far more informative than M-x
customize since controls are surrounded by brackets and point has to be
on the opening bracket for return to activate the control. Before I
write a bug report I'm going to see how far I get with M-x
Customize-browse since there may be some other helpful features in it I
want to discover. One item I found missing from the mouse group was an
option to tell emacs this computer hasn't got a rodent attached so
configure for complete keyboard control. That might disable some
keyboard-hostile behavior of calendar were information leveraged
properly in some future version of emacs.
On Mon, 15 Sep 2014, Cobe wrote:
>
> guess the best way to improve easy customisation (not that i use it) is to
> file suggestions in a bug report
>
> i'm neither a big GNUS user nor RSS reader but from memory GNUS supports
> fetching RSS feeds; have you tried that?
>
>
jude <jdashiel@shellworld.net>
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@ 2014-09-15 22:56 ` Emanuel Berg
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From: Emanuel Berg @ 2014-09-15 22:56 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: help-gnu-emacs
Jude DaShiell <jdashiel@shellworld.net> writes:
> gnus which I have working will be the next thing I
> try to access rss stuff. I found M-x customize-browse
> far more informative than M-x customize since
> controls are surrounded by brackets and point has to
> be on the opening bracket for return to activate the
> control. Before I write a bug report I'm going to see
> how far I get with M-x Customize-browse since there
> may be some other helpful features in it I want to
> discover. One item I found missing from the mouse
> group was an option to tell emacs this computer
> hasn't got a rodent attached so configure for
> complete keyboard control. That might disable some
> keyboard-hostile behavior of calendar were
> information leveraged properly in some future version
> of emacs.
I general I don't think Emacs is difficult to
configure. Actually I think the opposite: if there were
any software that could be that much configured (and
extended), that easy and fast, I would be using it!
About the keyboard-only thing: there you really came to
the right place. I haven't used a mouse for years, and
that has to a great extent been made possible by Emacs.
But yes, I had to put hours into getting better keys -
closer (less hand movement), shorter (not so many keys
pressed), and so on.
But your posts, I don't really understand your problem.
If you state the specific problem I'm sure people would
be happy to help you.
--
underground experts united
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@ 2014-09-16 15:22 ` sokobania.01
2014-09-16 15:27 ` sokobania.01
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From: sokobania.01 @ 2014-09-16 15:22 UTC (permalink / raw)
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I'm not enough english fluent to totally understand what you mean...
Are you blind and asking to know if the current point is over a
you could try C-h c RET
If emacs says that
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2014-09-16 15:22 ` sokobania.01
@ 2014-09-16 15:27 ` sokobania.01
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From: sokobania.01 @ 2014-09-16 15:27 UTC (permalink / raw)
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I'm not enough english fluent to totally understand what you mean...
Are you blind and asking to know if the current point is over a
button?
Something like: (get-char-property (point) 'button) should do it.
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