From: "Zachary" <Z_kline@hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: Windows Emacs and Screen Readers
Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2005 16:29:18 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <35b0mqF4kj1dhU1@individual.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: uis5r7nwi.fsf@jasonrumney.net
<jasonr (Jason Rumney) @ f2s.com> wrote in message
news:uis5r7nwi.fsf@jasonrumney.net...
> "Zachary" <Z_kline@hotmail.com> writes:
>
>> The problem with the console mode is that, at least apparently, the
>> status line is not displayed unless I use a keystroke like M-X, to
>> force something to be displayed in the echo area. This eliminates a
>> useful source of information for me.
>
> Console mode on MS-Windows is tuned for use through telnet by default,
> because many years ago it was decided that was more useful (or perhaps
> more difficult to recover from the inappropriate setting). To tune it
> to run locally, add the following to your .emacs:
>
> (setq w32-use-full-screen-buffer nil)
>
>
>> In graphical mode, the problems are more obvious and annoying. They
>> manifest themselves from the moment Emacs starts up, I have no idea
>> where my cursor is, or if it is in fact reading me a correct bit of
>> information.
>
> This should be fixed in the development version of Emacs, which can be
> obtained from cvs.gnu.org if you are able and willing to compile
> yourself, or there are a couple of 6 month old snapshots precompiled
> for Windows floating around (the Emacs wiki has links, I think).
>
Thanks for this useful information. I will be sure to try it and see if it
works.
Later,
Zack
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-01-21 0:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-01-20 6:49 Windows Emacs and Screen Readers Zachary
2005-01-20 22:10 ` Jason Rumney
2005-01-21 0:29 ` Zachary [this message]
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-06-28 21:55 Windows Emacs and screen readers Nikhil Nair
2005-06-28 22:17 ` Nick Roberts
2005-06-28 23:30 ` Jason Rumney
2005-06-29 7:30 ` Emilio Lopes
2005-06-29 17:32 ` Nikhil Nair
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