I didn't want to announce this just yet, but there has been so much interesting traffic on the VoiceCoder mailing list that I decided to make a...
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Brad Litterell
millsoft@xxxx.xxxx
Oct 1, 1999 3:47 pm
HI Alain, Great idea! ... need to learn a lot of things from scratch (often at a time in their life ... limited). I can attest to how true this is! I've been...
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Alain Desilets
Alain.Desilets@xxx.xx...
Oct 1, 1999 5:07 pm
... Super! A first example of design reuse across different programming environments. -- Alain Désilets Research Officer National Research Council Canada ...
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Brad Litterell
millsoft@xxxx.xxxx
Oct 1, 1999 4:02 pm
Hi Rick, I was about to give up because there are no dev-studio events that fire when the user changes the current text file. However, your suggestion of...
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Alain Desilets
Alain.Desilets@xxx.xx...
Oct 1, 1999 5:39 pm
... That's definitely a concern. ... What is a system keyboard hook? Is it something that's specific to WinXX, DevStudio or Dragon? ... In Emacs, abbrevs get...
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Brad Litterell
millsoft@xxxx.xxxx
Oct 1, 1999 4:47 pm
Hi Alain, In Windows it's possible to install "Hooks" that are functions that are called during system processing of various things. For example, it's ...
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Jonathan Epstein
Jonathan_Epstein@xxx....
Oct 1, 1999 6:28 pm
... and the ... speak ... before ... followed ... This standard character sounds like a great idea. Hmm... is there a way to "gobble up" the stray character...
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Brad Litterell
millsoft@xxxx.xxxx
Oct 1, 1999 5:13 pm
Hi All, Of late we've been talking about dictating source code. Please allow me to ask another question: How do you move around source code (search it, open...
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Jonathan Epstein
Jonathan_Epstein@xxx....
Oct 1, 1999 6:34 pm
For searching and opening lots of source files, many people like Emacs's etags, although I admit that I haven't used it in a while. I use Emacs's...
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Brad Litterell
millsoft@xxxx.xxxx
Oct 1, 1999 5:22 pm
I take it you've tried the registry hack? I think it's documented on Rose's or Joel's site. Brad millsoft@... <mailto:millsoft@...> ...
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Brad Litterell
millsoft@xxxx.xxxx
Oct 1, 1999 5:25 pm
Hi Jonathan, What magic lurks in those "few lines" in your .emacs file? Brad millsoft@... <mailto:millsoft@...> http://members.home.net/millsoft ...
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Jonathan Epstein
Jonathan_Epstein@xxx....
Oct 1, 1999 7:01 pm
Here 'tis: ;; Cause up and down arrows to repeat search in isearch-mode. This is useful in DragonDictate, ;; since now [Move Down] or [Move Up] cause repeated...
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Jonathan Epstein
Jonathan_Epstein@xxx....
Oct 1, 1999 7:02 pm
Thanks, Brad, I actually haven't tried it with Emacs (tried & failed with Eudora Pro 4.1, but that's another story), but it won't work with Emacs, which has...
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Alain Desilets
Alain.Desilets@xxx.xx...
Oct 1, 1999 8:39 pm
I have worked a bit on isolating the abbrevs portion of cperl-mode.el so that we could add abbrevs to various modes without modifying the source files of those...
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Alain Desilets
Alain.Desilets@...
Oct 1, 1999 8:55 pm
KEWL! Now, how about redefining the meaning of Up and Down on the fly. For example, you could have functions page-scroll that redefines Up to be...
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Jonathan Epstein
Jonathan_Epstein@...
Oct 1, 1999 9:01 pm
This is a big improvement, Alain, and I look forward to playing with it. Nitpicking: (1) Could you please use a different prefix than "vg-" (e.g., "pbv-"). ...
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Alain Desilets
Alain.Desilets@...
Oct 1, 1999 9:24 pm
As I said before, I haven't programmed by voice in a long time but I have thought about it a lot, navigation in particular. I think of code navigation...
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DonEMitchell
don@...
Oct 1, 1999 8:17 pm
Hi Jonathan, ... Joel, an employee of Drogon Systems (I think) has a nice techy site outside of the Dragon lair at www.synapseadaptive.com. He has a very nice,...
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Patricia Hawkins
phawkins@...
Oct 1, 1999 8:26 pm
... AD> Note that in the SR system, one will have to define words that type the AD> abbreviations and tag a non-word constituent character at the beginning and...
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Patricia Hawkins
phawkins@...
Oct 1, 1999 9:04 pm
... ... BL> How do you move around source code (search it, open files, move cursor BL> around, etc.). I'm doing a lot of code maintenance, so I move around a...
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Patricia Hawkins
phawkins@...
Oct 1, 1999 9:10 pm
... JE> From: Jonathan Epstein <Jonathan_Epstein@...> JE> Thanks, Brad, JE> I actually haven't tried it with Emacs (tried & failed with Eudora Pro 4.1, JE>...
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DonEMitchell
don@...
Oct 1, 1999 9:23 pm
Gentle people, I could be out of scope here, sortof hard for a VBer to follow these mind spinning conversations. Installing a hook will still need some...
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Patricia Hawkins
phawkins@...
Oct 1, 1999 9:24 pm
... JE> Thanks for your patience with this. JE> I have some additional thoughts on this general subject: JE> (1) we are now requiring Vocabulary Editor...
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Jonathan Epstein
Jonathan_Epstein@...
Oct 1, 1999 10:40 pm
I use and like NatLink, and have even made some small changes to it, but suggest that it adds additional complexity that we don't need to achieve our goals in...
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Brad Litterell
millsoft@...
Oct 1, 1999 9:32 pm
Hi Don, ... Yes. ... I'm ignorant of the Dragon API. Can you example that? Hooking windows will allow the add-in to detect and expand normal typing also (well...
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DonEMitchell
don@...
Oct 1, 1999 10:01 pm
I voice navigate code bases mostly Brad, with Dragon macros doing the keystrokes for me. I find that most every Microsoft creation has multiple ways to...
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Brad Litterell
millsoft@xxxx.xxxx
Oct 1, 1999 10:17 pm
Hi Folks, I just downloaded Emacs 20.4 for Win. It doesn't appear to run on Win98. Is this true or am I doing something wrong? Thanks, Brad millsoft@......
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Brad Litterell
millsoft@xxxx.xxxx
Oct 1, 1999 10:47 pm
Ran AddPm, seems to be fixed. Brad millsoft@... <mailto:millsoft@...> http://members.home.net/millsoft ...
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Brad Litterell
millsoft@xxxx.xxxx
Oct 1, 1999 10:56 pm
Hi All you Emacs Fans, I've had Emacs running for 5 minutes, and I'm getting the bad feeling that I might have to take the productivity hit to learn it.... I...
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Alain Desilets
Alain.Desilets@xxx.xx...
Oct 2, 1999 1:53 am
... Agreed. That brings up the issue of what the NRC Open Source project should be called. Originally I had thought about calling it plainly VoiceGrip Open...
