From: Nikhil Nair <nnair@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: Windows Emacs and screen readers
Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2005 18:32:09 +0100 (BST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0506291749440.8990@dsl-212-23-31-41.zen.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <loom.20050629T092720-383@post.gmane.org>
On Wed, 29 Jun 2005, Emilio Lopes wrote:
> Jason Rumney <jasonr <at> gnu.org> writes:
>
> > [...]
> > You need the later development version. Although the first changes to
> > use the system caret were made in 2001, a few months before 21.1 was
> > released, it was too close to the release to make it into 21.1, and
> > subsequent releases have all been bugfix releases.
> >
>
> Here is the documentation of the relevant user option:
>
> w32-use-visible-system-caret's value is nil
>
> Flag to make the system caret visible.
> When this is non-nil, Emacs will indicate the position of point by
> using the system caret instead of drawing its own cursor. Some screen
> reader software does not track the system cursor properly when it is
> invisible, and gets confused by Emacs drawing its own cursor, so this
> variable is initialized to t when Emacs detects that screen reader
> software is running as it starts up.
>
> When this variable is set, other variables affecting the appearance of
> the cursor have no effect.
>
> Defined in `C source code'.
Thanks to both of you for these helpful comments, and to Lennart Borgman
who pointed me to the precompiled version at
http://ourcomments.org/Emacs/EmacsW32.html .
I've just tried to install the development version I found there, on XP
SP2 (non-admin account), keeping all of the defaults except the
installation directory, which I put in my user account's filespace. It
seemed to install, but then wouldn't run; I get:
---------------------------
C:\Documents and Settings\nnair\Emacs\setup\bin\gnuclientw.exe
---------------------------
Could not start runemacs --load="C:/Documents and Settings/nnair/Emacs/setup/bin/gnuservauto.el"
---------------------------
OK
---------------------------
(the above is the result of cutting from a message box with C-c.)
Any hints appreciated. I did the installation from an unprivileged
account, but since the option it gave me was to do a full installation
except anything requiring privileged access, I presumed this would be
fine.
Cheers,
Nikhil.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-06-29 17:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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 [this message]
2005-06-29 18:57 ` NTEmacs documentation (was: Windows Emacs and screen readers) Eli Zaretskii
2005-07-01 16:50 ` Screen reader detection broken [Was: Re: Windows Emacs and screen readers] Nikhil Nair
2005-07-01 21:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-07-01 22:04 ` Screen reader detection broken Jason Rumney
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-01-20 6:49 Windows Emacs and Screen Readers Zachary
2005-01-20 22:10 ` Jason Rumney
2005-01-21 0:29 ` Zachary
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