Re: Thoth and dictation under Mavericks

From	Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net>
Newsgroups	uk.comp.sys.mac, comp.sys.mac.system
Subject	Re: Thoth and dictation under Mavericks
Date	2014-01-07 14:50 +0000
Message-ID	<070120141450367240%timstreater@greenbee.net> (permalink)
References	<070120141119116142%timstreater@greenbee.net> <slrnlcnvt2.2ecg.g.kreme@amelia.local>

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In article <slrnlcnvt2.2ecg.g.kreme@amelia.local>, Lewis
<g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> wrote:

> In message <070120141119116142%timstreater@greenbee.net> 
>   Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> wrote:
> > I thought dictation was supposed to operate in any situation where
> > keyboard input is active. However it doesn't seem to work in Thoth. The
> > Thoth Edit menu has a "Start dictation" entry but choosing it (of the
> > Fn Fn shortcut) does nothing.
> 
> Thoth is probably still largely OS 7-era code that was lifted from
> Newswatcher/YA-Newswatcher.
> 
> The speech input (and many other features of OS X text) require a
> NSText class, I believe. I would assume there are many things that work
> in OS X that do not work in Thoth. For example, ^A should take you the
> start of a line, and ^E to the end of a line.

Those two don't work for me in TextWrangler, but there may be some pref
I haven't got set.

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Thoth and dictation under Mavericks Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2014-01-07 11:19 +0000
  Re: Thoth and dictation under Mavericks Elliott Roper <nospam@yrl.co.uk> - 2014-01-07 12:43 +0000
    Re: Thoth and dictation under Mavericks Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> - 2014-01-07 08:51 -0700
      Re: Thoth and dictation under Mavericks Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2014-01-07 16:41 +0000
      Re: Thoth and dictation under Mavericks Elliott Roper <nospam@yrl.co.uk> - 2014-01-07 16:43 +0000
        Re: Thoth and dictation under Mavericks Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> - 2014-01-07 10:03 -0700
  Re: Thoth and dictation under Mavericks Jaimie Vandenbergh <jaimie@sometimes.sessile.org> - 2014-01-07 12:48 +0000
    Re: Thoth and dictation under Mavericks Elliott Roper <nospam@yrl.co.uk> - 2014-01-07 12:50 +0000
    Re: Thoth and dictation under Mavericks M-M <nospam.m-m@ny.more> - 2014-01-07 09:33 -0500
      Re: Thoth and dictation under Mavericks gtr <xxx@yyy.zzz> - 2014-01-07 09:56 -0800
        Re: Thoth and dictation under Mavericks Mark - 2014-01-07 18:35 +0000
          Re: Thoth and dictation under Mavericks gtr <xxx@yyy.zzz> - 2014-01-08 09:44 -0800
            Re: Thoth and dictation under Mavericks Graeme Wall <rail@greywall.demon.co.uk> - 2014-01-08 17:54 +0000
              Re: Thoth and dictation under Mavericks nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2014-01-08 13:42 -0500
                Re: Thoth and dictation under Mavericks gtr <xxx@yyy.zzz> - 2014-01-08 13:59 -0800
                Re: Thoth and dictation under Mavericks news{@bestley.co.uk (Mark Bestley) - 2014-01-08 23:45 +0000
                Re: Thoth and dictation under Mavericks gtr <xxx@yyy.zzz> - 2014-01-08 18:44 -0800
            Re: Thoth and dictation under Mavericks Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2014-01-08 18:35 +0000
              Re: Thoth and dictation under Mavericks Jaimie Vandenbergh <jaimie@sometimes.sessile.org> - 2014-01-08 19:27 +0000
                Re: Thoth and dictation under Mavericks Mr Guest <tom@guest-spamtrap.co.uk> - 2014-01-08 19:46 +0000
                Re: Thoth and dictation under Mavericks Elliott Roper <nospam@yrl.co.uk> - 2014-01-08 20:31 +0000
                Re: Thoth and dictation under Mavericks Mr Guest <tom@guest-spamtrap.co.uk> - 2014-01-08 21:00 +0000
                Re: Thoth and dictation under Mavericks gtr <xxx@yyy.zzz> - 2014-01-08 14:00 -0800
                Re: Thoth and dictation under Mavericks Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2014-01-08 22:08 +0000
                Re: Thoth and dictation under Mavericks gtr <xxx@yyy.zzz> - 2014-01-08 15:40 -0800
                Re: Thoth and dictation under Mavericks Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2014-01-09 08:43 +0000
                Re: Thoth and dictation under Mavericks jim@magrathea.plus.com (Jim) - 2014-01-09 19:03 +0000
                Re: Thoth and dictation under Mavericks gtr <xxx@yyy.zzz> - 2014-01-09 12:04 -0800
            Re: Thoth and dictation under Mavericks Michael Vilain <vilain@NOspamcop.net> - 2014-01-08 11:34 -0800
              Re: Thoth and dictation under Mavericks Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-01-08 20:28 +0000
              Re: Thoth and dictation under Mavericks Graeme Wall <rail@greywall.demon.co.uk> - 2014-01-08 20:32 +0000
              Re: Thoth and dictation under Mavericks Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> - 2014-01-08 14:52 -0700
    Re: Thoth and dictation under Mavericks Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2014-01-07 14:49 +0000
  Re: Thoth and dictation under Mavericks Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2014-01-07 13:22 +0000
    Re: Thoth and dictation under Mavericks Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2014-01-07 14:50 +0000

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