Usually the screen can be cleared with control-l. I thought I read somewhere that there was a way to have the terminal speak text written to stdout/stderr using the system voice. I looked in preferences and couldn't find it. Anyone else have any luck? I use terminal for macports apps/ssh/nano on occasion and though nano's cursor tracking is a little jumpy it works well enough for me.
James On 7/21/09, louie <[email protected]> wrote: > > Is there a way to clear the scroll area? > > On Jul 21, 2009, at 8:54 AM, Barry Hadder wrote: > >> >> As already mentioned, you interact with the scroll area to review the >> screen. Some times however, VO seems to get stuck and I've found I >> have to read by sentence when starting from the current prompt and >> reading upward through the output. >> >> How well it echos back when output is written to the screen varies. I >> wouldn't mind seeing it work a little better, but I think it's very >> usable. I haven't found an app yet that I couldn't use. >> >> In regards to Lynx, I find it helpful to have the links numbered. >> >> Also, for some reason the "-show_cursor" option never worked for me >> and I allways had to set it in the options. >> I've never liked using pine with any screen reading system. I would >> recommend Mutt. It's a little more trouble to set up but well worth >> it. >> >> >> On Jul 20, 2009, at 10:09 PM, Garry Turkington wrote: >> >>> >>> Hi, >>> >>> I played with the Mac terminal last year and got some help from >>> people >>> here re its accessibility. I'm now using my Mac a lot more and want >>> to >>> get the most out of the terminal so am requesting wisdom from others >>> out >>> there. >>> >>> From the command line I really need the ability to do development >>> locally >>> and connect to remote machines via ssh. I've found a few issues: >>> >>> 1. Any command that generates multi-line output seems to be >>> truncated by >>> the prompt or new line announcement. Good example is "java - >>> version". I >>> can improve this by setting a much shorter prompt in my shell but >>> it's >>> still very hit and miss. Is there any way to configure things to >>> more >>> reliably read new information? I've tried messing around with >>> cursor and >>> terminal types with no success that I can really point to. >>> >>> 2. Is there any way to review prior text on the screen or is >>> interacting >>> with the scroll area and moving the VO cursor up the way to do that? >>> >>> 3. When connecting to remote machines -- and to a lesser degree >>> locally -- >>> I need access to some ncurses applications but the cursor tracking >>> with VO >>> seems very unpredictable. An example would be to open "lynx - >>> show_cursor" >>> on the remote box and try and say navigate around the CNN homepage. >>> Or >>> use something like pine where cursoring around changes text >>> highlights. >>> >>> Anyone got advice as to how I can make all this work better for me? >>> >>> Many thanks, >>> Garry >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Garry Turkington >>> [email protected] >>> >>>> >> >> >> > > > louie > [email protected] > > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
