Re: How many of y'all use Emacspeak?

2017-06-17 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
Try running 'w3m' from the command line like: w3m http://amazon.com On 6/16/2017 8:46 PM, Linux for blind general discussion wrote: How do you get w3m to work? I've installed both w3m and emacs-w3m and restarted emacs, but M-x w3m fails. Which other email programs and browsers work with ema

Re: How many of y'all use Emacspeak?

2017-06-17 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
This led me to do a better Google search so now I've reconfigured emacs and eww is working. Yay! Now I have math and code-related tools to try out. (Anyone use the math navigator?) I still don't have w3m working and I did not see any useful output in the messages buffer. The emacs manual i

Re: How many of y'all use Emacspeak?

2017-06-17 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
You don't have the following line in your .emacs file yet, that should fix it. (setq browse-url-browser-function 'eww-browse-url) On Sat, 17 Jun 2017, Linux for blind general discussion wrote: Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2017 12:16:31 From: Linux for blind general discussion To: Linux for blind gene

Re: How many of y'all use Emacspeak?

2017-06-17 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
M-x browse-url just produces an error sound. On 06/17/2017 08:42 AM, Linux for blind general discussion wrote: try mx-browse-url and see what happens. On Fri, 16 Jun 2017, Linux for blind general discussion wrote: Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2017 20:46:39 From: Linux for blind general discussion To:

Re: How many of y'all use Emacspeak?

2017-06-17 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
Linux for blind general discussion writes: > Which other email programs and browsers work with emacs? I've had no > luck with eww. It gives the error that function requires libxml2. I > have libxml2. My suspicion is that, although libxml2 is installed on your system, emacs was not built with sup

Re: Pilot, as mentioned in my other thread.

2017-06-17 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
That's right a list of directories and files too. Start it up again and hit control-g and you get the help. It's a file manager utility that enables several single letter operations on files and directories once a directory or file is highlighted. On Sat, 17 Jun 2017, Linux for blind general

Pilot, as mentioned in my other thread.

2017-06-17 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
Mark Here, Ok, someone's gotta explain pilot to me. I started it by typing pilot, but got a list of directories. How would I use it to edit a text file, or possibly in alpine as an editor? I'm curious, and that's dangerous! Hahahahaha! in2014 Mark Peveto Registered Linux user number 600552 Eve

Re: working with nano

2017-06-17 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
Were you also introduced to pilot another one of alpine's extras as well? If anyone used dos earlier in their lives and liked nswp you'll also like pilot. On Sat, 17 Jun 2017, Linux for blind general discussion wrote: Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2017 09:28:22 From: Linux for blind general discussion

Re: How many of y'all use Emacspeak?

2017-06-17 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
try mx-browse-url and see what happens. On Fri, 16 Jun 2017, Linux for blind general discussion wrote: Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2017 20:46:39 From: Linux for blind general discussion To: Linux for blind general discussion Subject: Re: How many of y'all use Emacspeak? How do you get w3m to work? I

Re: working with nano

2017-06-17 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
I was introduced to nano by pico the default editor with the alpine mail client loaded when composing or replying to mail. It was part of the alpine package and could be used indenpendently as a text editor. Nano is a much improved pico and can be substituted for use in alpine. In the '90's I u