From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 30 23:58:59 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB5781065670 for ; Fri, 30 Dec 2011 23:58:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: from thought.org (plato.thought.org [209.180.213.209]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8D15D8FC1A for ; Fri, 30 Dec 2011 23:58:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: by thought.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id BB688E80553; Fri, 30 Dec 2011 15:58:58 -0800 (PST) Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2011 15:58:58 -0800 From: Gary Kline To: FreeBSD Mailing List Message-ID: <20111230235852.GA21531@thought.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. Of_Interest: With 25 years of service to the Unix community. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Cc: Subject: how to tell if a text1.text file has been written to disk? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2011 23:58:59 -0000 i'm using gvim for now. the person with impaired speech types.... Say: "hi, i'm jon and i'm hear to give you some background on virtue ethics." Or whatever. the gvim editor has been spawned. i must wait until the user is finished typing--ESC]:[Enter]. then my espeak | aplay speech code will echo what he has typed. is there any way, other than, or maybe in addition to-- spinning in a while loop at 10 millisecond usleeps for the vim ".text1.text.swp" file to go away? does wim enter characters into its textfiles as the user types? i'm close. thanks to guys who are on various mailing list. S-day: "show-and-tell day in 11 days away before e docs and therapists. most of them don't think that any oprm-source tools count. even ones like the newest graphic toolkits. like gtk. as always, thanks for any assist. you're all going on the list of contributors ... gary -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix Journey Toward the Dawn, E-Book: http://www.thought.org The 8.57a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org Twenty-five years of service to the Unix community.