Emacspeak on Android
by Tim Makarios
Hi,
I've been trying to get Emacspeak working on my mobile phone, which is
running LineageOS 17.1 (based on Android 10). So far, I've tried a couple
of things, but neither has quite worked.
First, I tried installing Emacspeak on debian-buster from proot-distro in
Termux. Unfortunately, it's silent, and running espeak on its own results
in a long list of errors, starting with
> ALSA lib confmisc.c:767:(parse_card) cannot find card '0'
so I guess Termux's proot-distro isn't giving Debian access to the audio.
For another attempt, I tried building Emacspeak directly in Termux. This
required building TclX, too, which seemed to work, but when I tried running
`./servers/espeak` it gave these errors
> couldn't load file
> "/data/data/com.termux/files/usr/lib/tclx8.4/libtclx8.4.so": dlopen
> failed: cannot locate symbol "rresvport" referenced by
> "/data/data/com.termux/files/usr/lib/tclx8.4/libtclx8.4.so"...
> while executing
> "load /data/data/com.termux/files/usr/lib/tclx8.4/libtclx8.4.so Tclx"
> ("package ifneeded Tclx 8.4" script)
> invoked from within
> "package require Tclx"
> (file "./servers/espeak" line 37)
so I guess TclX relies on rresvport, whatever that is, and Termux doesn't
provide it.
Does anyone have any clues about how I might be able to get Emacspeak
running on my phone?
Thanks,
Tim
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1 year
installing on Mac osx
by Mohammed Alderweesh
Hello list,
My name is Mohammed Alderweesh. This is my first time posting to this list.
I am trying to run emacs on Mac os x, I installed the required packages,
but when I try running it from the terminal I get the following error:
2021-04-20 05:17:01.372 Emacs-x86_64-10_14[10274:228475] Warning: Expected
min height of view: (<NSButton: 0x7fbe575bced0>) to be less than or equal
to 30 but got a height of 32.000000. This error will be logged once per
view in violation.
2021-04-20 05:17:01.377 Emacs-x86_64-10_14[10274:228475] Warning: Expected
min height of view: (<NSButton: 0x7fbe576376c0>) to be less than or equal
to 30 but got a height of 32.000000. This error will be logged once per
view in violation.
Emacs-x86_64-10_14(10274,0x700005a4f000) malloc: *** error for object
0x7000062509f8: pointer being freed was not allocated
Emacs-x86_64-10_14(10274,0x700005a4f000) malloc: *** set a breakpoint in
malloc_error_break to debug
Fatal error 4: Illegal instruction
zsh: abort emacs
Can you please help me into how to run the software?
Thank you.
Mohammed
1 year, 11 months
Unusual/unexpected Emacspeak behaviour
by Tim Cross
Hi Raman,
I have noticed something which seems a little odd. I first noticed it a
while ago, but thought it was due to something spacemacs does and didn't
worry about it too much. However, today I was working in a very minimal
Emacs and Emacspeak setup and noticed the same behaviour. I'm not sure
if this is a bug or an intentional change in how Emacspeak works.
The issue is with how Emacspeak speaks the window when you scroll
down/up using either pgdown or pgUp or C-v/M-v. In the past, when you do
this, Emacspeak would read out the new contents of the window. Now it
seems to behave differently depending if your moving up (pgUp/M-v) or
moving down (pgDown/C-v).
If you scroll down using C-v, only the first few lines of the new window
are spoken and speech stops. If you then hit pgUp or M-v to scroll back
up, the whole of the new screen of data plus the contents of the next
screen of data are spoken. It seems like the point marking the beginning
and end of the window are not being updated when you scroll, but I've
not debugged it yet. I really just wanted to flag this and see first if
it is a known issue or not.
The configuration I'm using is
- Emacs 27.2 built from current git repository
- Current Emacspeak as of today
- Minimal emacs configuration - essentially loads Emacspeak, increases
font size and installs a dark colour theme.
No other configuration apart from turning on auto-fill-mode. I have
verified visual-line-mode is not turned on (truncate line default is
used). No additional packages. Observed the same behaviour in text mode
and org mode.
To reproduce -
- Start Emacs
- Load Emacspeak
- Open either an org file or text file which is large enough to require
scrolling for multiple 'windows/screens' of data.
- Move cursor to the beginning of the buffer.
- Use C-v or pgDown to scroll down one screenful of data. Emacspeak will
only speak the first 3 or 4 lines of the new screen of data.
- Use M-v or pgUp to scroll up to the top of the buffer. Emacspeak will
speak both the displayed window of data and what would be displayed in
the second window of data. i.e. speaks 2 'windows' of data rather than
just the displayed one.
I will try adding some debug statements to check the values being passed
in and see if that adds any clarity about what is going on.
Tim
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Tim Cross
1 year, 11 months
Question possibly about dired and emacspeak?
by Hwaen Ch'uqi
Greetings,
Is there a way of using something like timidity or mplayer in dired
while still operating on another file with emacspeak? At present, I
can listen to the audio output called in the dired buffer, and I can
meanwhile navigate to other buffers within emacs, but I cannot get a
voice to speak while the other audio is going on. I would be grateful
for any feedback.
Thank you!
Hwaen Ch'uqi
1 year, 11 months
advising emacs slack client
by prayner＠unimelb.edu.au
I'm using slack increasingly and the emacs client is already usable.
It could use a fair bit of advising though. Before I start down this
road (slow given other commitments) I thought I'd check whether anyone
else is doing/planning this. It looks like one might start with
lui-mode. I also wouldn't mind any pointers on how to go about this
process though I'm happy to dig on my own if needed.
cheers
Peter
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Peter Rayner
Academic Lead - Climate & Energy College <http://www.climatecollege.unimelb.edu.au>
merged School of geography and Earth Sciences, University of Melbourne, 3010, Vic, Australia
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1 year, 12 months
Text on overlays not announced
by Simon Wheatcroft
Hi,
I am having an issue with text not being announced.
I am using elpy and for code suggestions an overlay loads on top. I can navigate and select items within the overlay but nothing is announced. It makes code suggestions hard to use as i have no idea what is in the pop up overlays.
Does anyone have a solution?
Many thanks
Simon
1 year, 12 months
