From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Caps Lock affects Ctrl+keys Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2014 19:24:14 +0100 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: <87d2jmwly0.fsf@nl106-137-194.student.uu.se> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1390242312 18094 80.91.229.3 (20 Jan 2014 18:25:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2014 18:25:12 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jan 20 19:25:21 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1W5JXF-0007C5-Ec for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 20 Jan 2014 19:25:21 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:54060 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W5JXE-0001R8-V2 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 20 Jan 2014 13:25:20 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.kjsl.com!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!newsfeed.tele2net.at!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 47 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: /ZLK7EtDT1dvbkmVtWlLYw.user.speranza.aioe.org Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Cancel-Lock: sha1:mOv7PVQ19FDwvi4HSD9wmP7Qxmg= Mail-Copies-To: never Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:203249 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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 Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:95517 Archived-At: Jude DaShiell writes: > I'm using linux-speakup Did you try that for this particular problem or do you use it habitually? I have been experimenting with stuff like that, notably emacspeak (a script that starts Emacs with a TTS extension), only it won't shut up because it is intended for blind people. While I can't, uh, visualize their situation(s), even to a blind person that's a lot of noise. Problem was that I couldn't configure it without having it loaded, and that made me crazy after just a few keystrokes and cursor movements. So I checked it out with 'aptitude show' and found that it was based on espeak, which is available in the Debian repos as a stand-alone-tool, and so I wrote es () { espeak -s 130 -k 20 -v en -f $1 -w `basename $1 .txt`.wav } to create sound files from text, and it should be a small task to setup defuns to interact with it. For a sound file example (and the text file used as input), check out [1]. I don't know if it can replace reading. It will certainly not be as enjoyable. But what do you do? All tricks to compensate for the loss of information intake should be explored... > over here and I don't use g.u.i. stuff on Linux I > have to do that at work and shouldn't have to at > home. Right on! > The only way I found to clear this state was to > reboot the amd64 k8 athelon and that cleared it. What? :) [1] http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573/espeak_demo/ -- underground experts united: http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573