incremental searching

["T. V. Raman" <ramantv@earthlink.net>]

>>>>> "Gary" == Gary Lawrence Murphy <garym@canada.com> writes:

    Gary> A quick and naive question: How is isearch-forward
    Gary> (Ctrl-S) supposed to work under emacspeak?  My

Here is how it works --with both the Dectalk and Outloud 
U: C-s 
E: i-search:
u: ema
E: searches forward and speaks the  line containing the
match-
    with the search hit aurally  highlighted and an
accompanying auditory icon
The aural highlighting helps you tell which of the multiple
possible matches on a given line you've just hit.

    Gary> testers are having trouble with this.  Can someone
    Gary> describe to me the dialog that happens when you
    Gary> use incremental searching?

    Gary> We also find that C-x k does kill the buffer, but
    Gary> does not speak the prompt (which should say "kill
I just tried the above and the prompt does get spoken.
Have you hacked kill-buffer in some way --perhaps something
    Gary> else has 
attached something to kill-buffer-hook.
Verify by starting a vanila emacs with only emacspeak loaded.
    Gary> buffer (default x)".  Is this a configuration
    Gary> error in our system?
Possibly.
    Gary> -- Gary Lawrence Murphy <garym@canada.com>
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