Hi, I think to clear the screen it is "Ctrl" + "Shift" + "k", or at worst, without the "Shft". I don't remember.
Regards, Alex, On 21-Jul-09, at 9:11 AM, James Dietz wrote: > > Usually the screen can be cleared with control-l. > > I thought I read somewhere that there was a way to have the terminal > speak text written to stdout/stderr using the system voice. I looked > in preferences and couldn't find it. Anyone else have any luck? I use > terminal for macports apps/ssh/nano on occasion and though nano's > cursor tracking is a little jumpy it works well enough for me. > > James > > On 7/21/09, louie <louiem...@wavecable.com> wrote: >> >> Is there a way to clear the scroll area? >> >> On Jul 21, 2009, at 8:54 AM, Barry Hadder wrote: >> >>> >>> As already mentioned, you interact with the scroll area to review >>> the >>> screen. Some times however, VO seems to get stuck and I've found I >>> have to read by sentence when starting from the current prompt and >>> reading upward through the output. >>> >>> How well it echos back when output is written to the screen >>> varies. I >>> wouldn't mind seeing it work a little better, but I think it's very >>> usable. I haven't found an app yet that I couldn't use. >>> >>> In regards to Lynx, I find it helpful to have the links numbered. >>> >>> Also, for some reason the "-show_cursor" option never worked for me >>> and I allways had to set it in the options. >>> I've never liked using pine with any screen reading system. I would >>> recommend Mutt. It's a little more trouble to set up but well worth >>> it. >>> >>> >>> On Jul 20, 2009, at 10:09 PM, Garry Turkington wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> I played with the Mac terminal last year and got some help from >>>> people >>>> here re its accessibility. I'm now using my Mac a lot more and >>>> want >>>> to >>>> get the most out of the terminal so am requesting wisdom from >>>> others >>>> out >>>> there. >>>> >>>> From the command line I really need the ability to do development >>>> locally >>>> and connect to remote machines via ssh. I've found a few issues: >>>> >>>> 1. Any command that generates multi-line output seems to be >>>> truncated by >>>> the prompt or new line announcement. Good example is "java - >>>> version". I >>>> can improve this by setting a much shorter prompt in my shell but >>>> it's >>>> still very hit and miss. Is there any way to configure things to >>>> more >>>> reliably read new information? I've tried messing around with >>>> cursor and >>>> terminal types with no success that I can really point to. >>>> >>>> 2. Is there any way to review prior text on the screen or is >>>> interacting >>>> with the scroll area and moving the VO cursor up the way to do >>>> that? >>>> >>>> 3. When connecting to remote machines -- and to a lesser degree >>>> locally -- >>>> I need access to some ncurses applications but the cursor tracking >>>> with VO >>>> seems very unpredictable. An example would be to open "lynx - >>>> show_cursor" >>>> on the remote box and try and say navigate around the CNN homepage. >>>> Or >>>> use something like pine where cursoring around changes text >>>> highlights. >>>> >>>> Anyone got advice as to how I can make all this work better for me? >>>> >>>> Many thanks, >>>> Garry >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Garry Turkington >>>> garry.turking...@gmail.com >>>> >>>>> >>> >>> >>>> >> >> louie >> louiem...@wavecable.com >> >> >> >> >>> >> > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
