how do you inter command line?
----- Original Message -----
From: "David Poehlman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "General discussions on all topics relating to the use of Mac OS X by
theblind" <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, November 01, 2006 3:07 AM
Subject: Re: Using Command Line with VoiceOver
rich and all,
I use control-option-left and right arrow to move segment by segment
within lines.
On Oct 31, 2006, at 4:39 PM, Rich Caloggero wrote:
Thanx Cheryl, this helped a lot.
I like hearing the output as soon as it is generated, but it works.
The only real problem is its hard to review the last output in anymore
detail than line-at-a-time. option+leftArrow moves back one character in
the
last command you typed, but I can't seem to find how to walk back through
the whole output in any smaller increments than line-by-line.
Thanx again...
-- Rich
----- Original Message -----
From: "Cheryl Homiak" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "General discussions on all topics relating to the use of Mac OS X by
the blind" <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, October 31, 2006 2:31 PM
Subject: Re: Using Command Line with VoiceOver
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."
