Re: VI / VIM / GVIM like editors that works well with JAWS

Vi editor, boy that takes me back.  It has been years since I had to
mess with that.  I was a unixoid in those days logging onto shell
accounts using Procom Plus for Dos and a modem.  The software then was
Mastertouch for DOS, the top-of-the-line screen reader of its day,
imho.  I sometimes wish Jaws had some of its features.  Why wouldn't
it be accessible with Jaws?  It's purely text-based as I recall.  Has
it gotten GUI in the last few years?  I can't imagine you could do
anything sophisticated with it.  Wordpad could probably do as much
with hotkeys in the Jaws keyboard manager to keep your hands on the
home row.

On 5/28/10, Kerneels Roos <kerneels@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I'm looking for a VI / VIM / GVIM like text editor that works well with JAWS
> (or NVDA).
>
> VIM itself does not work well with JAWS or NVDA. The benefits of using a
> VIM-like editor is that one rarely need to move your hands from the home row
> on the keyboard and hence can manipulate text extremely fast.
>
> Since VIM itself has never been compattible with JAWS I don't think many
> blind people are aware of the benefits of it's way of manipulating text
> files.
>
> There exists an add on for Visual Studio which provides a VI/VIM-like
> interface in the code editor. It is a commercial product and from what I've
> read it works really well, so worth the money.
>
> What I'm looking for is either an accessible editor with VI/VIM like
> interface or a way to make the real VIM editor compattible with JAWS and/or
> NVDA.
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
>
> Kind regards,
> Kerneels
>
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