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From: Uriel <uriel99@gmail.com>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Are there any blind users of Plan 9?
Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2008 07:20:30 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5d375e920810202220q1ec3d0abmb549aca65d902f63@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.SOC.1.10.0810202157180.20406@elrond.orthanc.ca>

sam -d is also very powerful, and might be worth learning even for
unix use, I'm totally ignorant about specialized editors for the
blind, but if I ever lost my sight, I think sam -d would be all I
would use.

(The tutorial on the sam language is most enlightening for everyone,
even lowly acme users like me:
http://doc.cat-v.org/bell_labs/sam_lang_tutorial/ )

uriel

On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 7:00 AM, Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon@orthanc.ca> wrote:
>> 2) An option in rio to automatically open a new window
>> 3) A window switching program for rio (think alt+tab in Windows)
>
> For this particular case it's probably better to ditch rio completely and
> write something dedicated to the task at hand.
>
> As for editors, all you need is ed(1).  And believe me, it works. I've used
> it many times to "blind"ly edit config files over bodged up tty links.
>
> --lyndon
>
>



  reply	other threads:[~2008-10-21  5:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-10-20  9:27 Chris Brannon
2008-10-20  9:55 ` Rudolf Sykora
2008-10-20  9:56 ` Gorka Guardiola
2008-10-20 10:15   ` Jeff R. Allen
2008-10-20 10:29     ` Rudolf Sykora
2008-10-20 10:34     ` Pietro Gagliardi
2008-10-20 14:12       ` john
2008-10-20 21:00       ` Federico G. Benavento
2008-10-20 21:15         ` Pietro Gagliardi
2008-10-21  5:00           ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2008-10-21  5:20             ` Uriel [this message]
2008-10-21 10:37               ` [9fans] How to go about doing screen reading Pietro Gagliardi
2008-10-21 15:52                 ` Chris Brannon
2008-10-21 17:21                   ` [9fans] bitsy anyone? Benjamin Huntsman
2008-10-21 17:29                     ` Francisco J Ballesteros
2008-10-21 18:17                     ` David du Colombier
2008-10-21 21:09                       ` Eoghan Sherry
2008-10-21 21:10                         ` Benjamin Huntsman
2008-10-21 21:49                           ` Eoghan Sherry
2008-10-23  9:29         ` [9fans] Are there any blind users of Plan 9? matt
2008-10-20 15:10 ` Dave Eckhardt
2008-10-20 16:06   ` Chris Brannon
2008-10-20 19:15     ` Noah Evans

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