Re: Optimizing terminal accessibility

2009-07-25 Thread Mitchell Smith
To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Sent: Tuesday, July 21, 2009 9:54 PM Subject: Re: Optimizing terminal accessibility Hi James/Alex, Thanks for your input here. James, I'd be interested to hear if you've done any configuring to make access to apps on the remote machines you ssh to better

Re: Optimizing terminal accessibility

2009-07-21 Thread James Nash
Sent: Tuesday, July 21, 2009 5:39 AM Subject: Re: Optimizing terminal accessibility Hi, Gary, I use it all day with varied success. Nano is a new eddition to my toolbox and it seems to have a few qwerks, but nothing major. I also used to use VIM, but found it crashed a lot with VO. You

Re: Optimizing terminal accessibility

2009-07-21 Thread Michael Babcock
Subject: Re: Optimizing terminal accessibility Hi, Gary, I use it all day with varied success. Nano is a new eddition to my toolbox and it seems to have a few qwerks, but nothing major. I also used to use VIM, but found it crashed a lot with VO. You are correct that interacting and moving

Re: Optimizing terminal accessibility

2009-07-21 Thread Garry Turkington
Subject: Re: Optimizing terminal accessibility Hi, Gary, I use it all day with varied success. Nano is a new eddition to my toolbox and it seems to have a few qwerks, but nothing major. I also used to use VIM, but found it crashed a lot with VO. You are correct that interacting and moving

Re: Optimizing terminal accessibility

2009-07-21 Thread kaare dehard
these to the Mac I take it how cool. Take care James - Original Message - From: Alex Jurgensen asquare...@gmail.com To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Sent: Tuesday, July 21, 2009 5:39 AM Subject: Re: Optimizing terminal accessibility Hi, Gary, I use it all day with varied

Re: Optimizing terminal accessibility

2009-07-21 Thread Barry Hadder
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

Re: Optimizing terminal accessibility

2009-07-21 Thread louie
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

Re: Optimizing terminal accessibility

2009-07-21 Thread Barry Hadder
Another note about using ncurses aps that I didn't mention or didn't articulate very well: Use the arrow keys are what ever key combos the app uses rather than the VO keys. I've found that in most cases VO will track and read the hi-light quite well. Hope that helps. On Jul 20, 2009, at

Re: Optimizing terminal accessibility

2009-07-21 Thread James Dietz
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

Re: Optimizing terminal accessibility

2009-07-21 Thread Barry Hadder
Just type clear at the prompt. On Jul 21, 2009, at 11:08 AM, louie 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

Re: Optimizing terminal accessibility

2009-07-21 Thread Alex Jurgensen
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

Re: Optimizing terminal accessibility

2009-07-21 Thread Alex Jurgensen
I take it how cool. Take care James - Original Message - From: Alex Jurgensen asquare...@gmail.com To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Sent: Tuesday, July 21, 2009 5:39 AM Subject: Re: Optimizing terminal accessibility Hi, Gary, I use it all day with varied success. Nano

Optimizing terminal accessibility

2009-07-20 Thread Garry Turkington
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

Re: Optimizing terminal accessibility

2009-07-20 Thread Alex Jurgensen
Hi, Gary, I use it all day with varied success. Nano is a new eddition to my toolbox and it seems to have a few qwerks, but nothing major. I also used to use VIM, but found it crashed a lot with VO. You are correct that interacting and moving the VO cursor is the only way to read prior