Hi, after I sent a message to Ira answering his questions tome, I noticed that he sent his message to the list. So, I'm forwarding my answers as sent to him. Rafi.
> -----Original Message----- > From: Rafi Cohen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Sunday, December 26, 2004 3:20 AM > To: Ira Abramov > Subject: RE: this may sound somewhat off-topic, but please read > > > Hi Ira, I need to correct you. With my braile display, I use vi > and emacs very extensively. > For mail reading, I use pine. > concerning the quotes from previous mails, one of the buttons of > the display brings me one line downwards without needing to read > the entire line. > So, I make use of the ">" sign in the beginning of the quoted > line, just read 2 or 3 words on each line to remember the text > and go downwads until the current message's text and then read. > So, it is not too slow. > Rafi. > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Ira Abramov > > Sent: Sunday, December 26, 2004 2:10 AM > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: Re: this may sound somewhat off-topic, but please read > > > > > > Quoting Shaul Karl, from the post of Sun, 26 Dec: > > > What is a braille display? I mean, how it looks, how the user > > > interacts with it, how does it cope with something other then letters? > > > > If memory serves those interfaces "display" in Braille two or three > > lines of a terminal > > > > I'd assume it works like a dumb terminal and you use dumb terminal tools > > with it, such as ed mail rather than vi and mutt. > > > > In which case, I have to ask you, does it slow you a lot when people > > quote more than a line or two before they start their answer? I try to > > do this in my replies even without ever thinking about blind audience, > > because overquoting is annoying to me even as a seeing person, but I can > > only guess how it effects your readership... > > > > > In particular, can't such a display automatically represent ASCII > > > characters, without the need for a special driver? > > > > well, one WOULD need to have the installation all done on a serial > > console and without fancy menues... > > > > -- > > An almond in the rough > > Ira Abramov > > http://ira.abramov.org/email/ > > > > ================================================================= > > To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > > the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command > > echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
