Re: JFW keymap like orca keymap?
- From: Daniel Dalton <d.dalton@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2008 19:10:30 +1000 (EST)
On Thu, 17 Apr 2008, Octavian Rasnita wrote:
Well, for the moment I cannot do well file browsing, email and text editing
under Linux now.
You can't? I can... Just learn the cli better...
And the best text editor (emacs) runs under linux.
I always like to use tree views for easily navigate the screen, and I even
made some changes in the registry for starting My computer with a tree view,
like when starting Windows Explorer (although it is a single program).
Ok, but no need for that in a cli.
thing in the mail client, and I don't know how I can get such a thing under
Alpine does what I want.
I open it press l for folder list, select my folder and then read my
messages...
One thing I don't think it does is subdirs, although it might...
In the text editors I like to be able to use a simple editor like nano or
pico, but I also need it to be able to search and replace using regular
expressions.
Well im sure emacs can do that.
But please don't tell me that an editor like ed or vi is very good, or an
environment like Emacs. I would need to spend a lot of time studying manuals
in order to be able to use just an editor like vi or emacs well.
Yes, but its really worth it.
I spent one night studying the emacs tutorial and just google for quick
little things as I need them...
What do you want? You ask for advanced things, but use basic editors since
you can't be bothered reading documentation?
The command line is fine for doing some things, but not for everything,
because sometimes it could need too many key presses.
Have you heard of shell scripts? Or environment variables? Or even touch
typing?
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