Post B2bs9xK0LyYPJKoFXs by tusharhero@mathstodon.xyz
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(DIR) Post #B2aZdbBz6NCp4uWH44 by divyaranjan@mathstodon.xyz
2026-01-23T21:26:07Z
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I sort of made a breakthrough, I originally thought this would be impossible but it eventually worked!We now have a cursor for navigating the text in a document in #Emacs Reader! And you can navigate entirely by keyboard!!!Right now in the demo below it can only emulate forward and backward movement, but I'll be implementing vertical movement. Not just that, you would be able to set marks and highlight just by keyboard!!
(DIR) Post #B2aa12EMjvSRb3oC0G by divyaranjan@mathstodon.xyz
2026-01-23T21:30:24Z
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A bit of history, once integrated #Emacs Reader would be the only document reader inside #Emacs, and actually beyond Emacs even to support a fully keyboard-driven document reader. Even zathura or sioyek only navigate the page, not at character, word or line level.Notoriously there was a huge (3K!) LOC PR to pdf-tools to enable this, which implements exactly this but it never got merged:https://github.com/vedang/pdf-tools/pull/39
(DIR) Post #B2aaUyPBWkumQ592Xo by divyaranjan@mathstodon.xyz
2026-01-23T21:35:48Z
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Another goal with this, is to allow differently abled people (say, without sight) to have more accessibility. If we hook up a TTS to this, then it will speak aloud each character as they navigate with their keyboard. This is hugely ignored in document readers.
(DIR) Post #B2ag2NlgkUegPOQ93I by otfrom@functional.cafe
2026-01-23T22:36:48Z
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@divyaranjan wow
(DIR) Post #B2boymlyvw3HXwsTOi by Suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com
2026-01-24T11:52:42.970542Z
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@divyaranjan Looks awesome - it'll be amazing if you could get a document viewer better than zathura.
(DIR) Post #B2bpFpncvyQ1r8mDD6 by fiore@brain.worm.pink
2026-01-24T11:55:51.593051Z
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@divyaranjan wooooag would be awesome to have this in zathura ngl
(DIR) Post #B2bpRGy6GF4VIw85T6 by freya@chaosfem.tw
2026-01-24T11:57:20Z
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@divyaranjan hey, just a quick note. generally folks like us tend to heavily dislike terms that talk around what we are, which is in fact, disabled. we're not "folks without sight", we're blind or low vision. just sorta wanted to let you know
(DIR) Post #B2bpt2YRRdjIi1MuY4 by divyaranjan@mathstodon.xyz
2026-01-24T12:02:57Z
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@freya Noted, thank you Ra!
(DIR) Post #B2bpxB0dx4Oo5cX332 by freya@chaosfem.tw
2026-01-24T12:03:40Z
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@divyaranjan of course!
(DIR) Post #B2bs9xK0LyYPJKoFXs by tusharhero@mathstodon.xyz
2026-01-24T12:28:21Z
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@Suiseiseki @divyaranjan that's the plan :)
(DIR) Post #B2cDHD5UEV6xGwJqgy by divyaranjan@mathstodon.xyz
2026-01-24T16:25:00Z
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@mekeor You're welcome to chime in during the ELPA submission. If the Emacs maintainers required me to change to be in ELPA, I will.