Hi! On Wed, Nov 28, 2001 at 02:32:39PM -0500, Dan Boger wrote: > On Wed, Nov 28, 2001 at 08:26:35PM +0100, Christian Schoepplein wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'm a blind computeruser who wants to use mutt. Most things are working > > very fine, I had only to change a view settings in the > > standardconfiguration to get mutt working with my special screenreading > > software (suse-blinux) and hardware devices (brailledisplay and > > speechsynt). But one thing is very uncomfortable... When reading a mail, > > there is no cursor inside mutt's internal pager which makes it unposible > > for my screenreading software to read the message with the normal keyboard > > by using the arrowkeys for example. I have to use the keys on my > > brailledisplay and thats really stressfull ;-). > > > > What I'm looking for is a posibility to get a cursor inside the pager > > which is positioned on the first letter of the line. When opening a > > message the cursor should be in teh first line of the mail and it would be > > cool to scroll to the next line (for example by pressing > > the arrow-down-key) and so on, till the last line of the messagetext. It > > would be great to be able navigating on every line of the message with the > > cursor, then it shuld be no problem reading a message with my > > screenreading software. > > > > As far as I know mutt doesn't have a solution for my problem, but maybe > > I'm wrong ??? Perhaps anyone has a tip how I can solve the problem or > > maybe it is posible to ad a new feature to mutt, that brings a cursor in > > to the internal pager. > > well, a workaround might be instead of viewing messages with <enter>, > view with 'e' - edit-message. that will open the message in your > defined editor, and you can scroll through it there with the cursor... > when done, just quit your editor without saving, and you're back at the > index. > > in my setup, the editor is set to : > > set editor="vim -u ~/.mutt/vimrc -c ':0;/^$'" > > so that it automagically starts after the headers :)
Using a external editor or pager for viewing the messages has the disadvantage, that no mutt-internal commands are working. To go arround my problem both solutions are ok, but they are really only a workaround ;-). Best regards, Schoeppi -- Christian Schoepplein | http://www.lily-rockt.de [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.lavish.de
