Hello,
This is just a message to say, 'Wow!', or the equivalent thereof.
For those people aroud here who might not know, Emacspeak is a method
for making the Emacs text editor fully speech-enabled under Linux. It
lets a blind person use the editor for much the same things as a sighted
person would--programming with full audio syntax highlighting included.
This has traditionally been impossible to use on Windows, but that
changed tonight.
I was able to use the old enlightenment sound daemon trick to route the
speech output from Emacspeak to my Windows laptop which ran the daemon.
No, performance wasn't stellar, but still.
I am continually amazed at the abilities of a system like CoLinux to do
this sort of thing so easily. The program runs--and I was able to send
mail using VM, which speaks volumes for the useability.
Granted, for normal shell access I still use a Windows screen reader to
read the NT command prompt window, but that too might not be necesary in
the near future. I don't know.
Just thought I'd drop a line to say that the seemingly difficult has
been accomplished, and that I love CoLinux.
Cheers,
Zack.
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