From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: jasonr (Jason Rumney) @ f2s.com Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Windows Emacs and Screen Readers Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2005 22:10:05 +0000 Organization: freedom2surf Message-ID: References: <3592jgF4inng9U1@individual.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1106259516 19431 80.91.229.6 (20 Jan 2005 22:18:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2005 22:18:36 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jan 20 23:18:28 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1CrkdH-0003j3-00 for ; Thu, 20 Jan 2005 23:18:27 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1CrkpI-0008DK-TT for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 20 Jan 2005 17:30:52 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!newsfeed1.e.nsc.no!peernews.cix.co.uk!peer.news.zetnet.net!newsfeed.uk.prserv.net!prserv.net!news.freedom2surf.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 25 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: i-195-137-77-250.freedom2surf.net Original-X-Trace: news.freedom2surf.net 1106259019 25956 195.137.77.250 (20 Jan 2005 22:10:19 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@freedom2surf.net Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2005 22:10:19 +0000 (UTC) X-Face: .PruP48JRO{Z6Rfz?YkZ>)zR+7!Up"`!1Cvq{fGd)@K; y]C:8r\CrJ^Mj\_U"9*WD2 I#zdK_#tw]y9*Y$?ge&b23Zt7zpknL{)F7Px4DVSY6b9dg[^VtkN-R_$YJ0cL''j[, }O#k{k| User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/21.3.50 (windows-nt) Cancel-Lock: sha1:Uzn7FPsZkamOpgjai8mBzZWwZYo= Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:128026 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:23517 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:23517 "Zachary" 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).