I've forgotten how to do it, but I can get back to the bottom of the
window if I am inadvertantly taken to the top. I like the suggestion
of uncoupling the cursors.
On Oct 31, 2006, at 2:31 PM, Cheryl Homiak wrote:
No, console won't
help you with using terminal.
Using terminal with vo takes some getting used to but it is learnable
if you do it consistently for a while--depending of course on what
you are trying to do. You have to make sure you are on the area that
says "text and not on the "split terminal" button when you work in
terminal. Then you have to interact with the text to see what
terminal has done. Use vokeys-right and down and up arrow to review
but be careful of using vokeys-left arrow as that can send you back
to the top. if you want to go backwards across the last line of text
use vokeys-shift-leftarrow to go a character at a time. You use cmd-k
to clear the scrollback and that also helps if vo stops talking when
you are typing. typing clear once in a while to clear the screen also
helps. a file in emacs in the terminal works very nicely and will
voice by arrowing up and down without interacting; lynx and pine can
also be used but make sure you have show_cursor set in those
programs. If you have a braille notetaker or braille display
supported by brltty, you can run brltty with screen in terminal and
this admitedly makes it a lot easier. but even before I could use
brltty in the terminal I found terminal useable once I got used to
having to interact to see the results. If there's a specific program
you are trying to run that you are finding more difficult you could
also post about that specifically and I or somebody else might be
able to help. At first I didn't like the fact that the text output
wasn't automatically spoken when I typed a command but now that I'm
used to not having that, I prefer it that way for the most part. The
most difficult situation is when you type a command that produces a
lot of text output.
--
Cheryl
"Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also."
