Jude DaShiell <jdashiel@shellworld.net> writes:
I tried setting up emacspeak and emacspeak needs two variables exported to the user's .profile file in order to work. The EMACSPEAK_DIR variable needs to point at the location of emacspeak and DTK_PROGRAM needs to point at the speech server you intend to use. The export commands did not create a .profile file for me nor did they update a .profile file for me with their contents in it.
Aren't you supposed to edit ~/.profile by hand?
Using echo to create and populate the .profile also has no good effect.
How come?
I'm about to use git to pull the current version of emacspeak down onto this system and try with that but I downloaded and built eflite and emacspeak that's on this machine from the aur repository. Fortunately, I can test emacspeak on debian without much difficulty and may need to check out where debian stores those export variables since the debian version I have made work in the past.
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