Another note about using ncurses aps that I didn't mention or didn't articulate very well:
Use the arrow keys are what ever key combos the app uses rather than the VO keys. I've found that in most cases VO will track and read the hi-light quite well. Hope that helps. 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 > garry.turking...@gmail.com > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
