Re: Quest for the Perfect Text Editor

  • From: Jamal Mazrui <empower@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2010 11:00:32 -0500

Thanks, Jim. Regarding conversions, the latest EdSharp offers numerous choices by incorporating the Pandoc utility. Check the Open Other Format command, Control+Shift+O, and Export command, Alt+Shift+E. If anyone finds ways of improving these, just send me the appropriate entries for EdSharp.ini.


Jamal


On 11/29/2010 10:40 AM, Homme, James wrote:
Hi,
Yes. Snippets are what I am referring to. And also conversions. Very powerful 
stuff.

Jim

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-----Original Message-----
From: programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
[mailto:programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jamal Mazrui
Sent: Monday, November 29, 2010 9:55 AM
To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: Littlefield, Tyler
Subject: Re: Quest for the Perfect Text Editor

Tyler,
I think Jim was referring to snippets, which are separate files written
in JScript.net.  Regarding start-up time, I've repeatedly asked you for
the code you said you wrote that reduces this problem.

Jamal


On 11/29/2010 9:14 AM, Littlefield, Tyler wrote:
You -could- write code, but adding to a file of 12k lines with minimal
documentation and horrible coding is kind of hard to do. I had to spend
hours to get the thing to not take 30 seconds to start up. I like
edsharp, but now a lot less so now that I've seen how the code under the
hood works. It doesn't change that it is a good editor, just kind of
shines and shows why the problems that exist do exist for me.
On 11/29/2010 4:58 AM, Homme, James wrote:
Hi Kerneels,
I'm unsure how you'd define the perfect text editor, but in my view,
and I've put it through a lot of its paces, EdSharp is my editor of
choice. Second choice for me is NoteTab or NoteTab Pro if you want to
spend the $29 US. I'd recommend that you do that if you use NoteTab.
It has extremely powerful features. But EdSharp talks better out of
the box, because it was written for people who are blind. And you can
spend the time to customize it the way you want it to work if you are
willing to write code that hooks into it, because it offers you most
of .Net to play with.

Thanks.

Jim

Jim Homme,
Usability Services,
Phone: 412-544-1810. Skype: jim.homme
Internal recipients, Read my accessibility blog. Discuss accessibility
here. Accessibility Wiki: Breaking news and accessibility advice

-----Original Message-----
From: programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Kerneels Roos
Sent: Friday, November 26, 2010 4:02 AM
To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Quest for the Perfect Text Editor

Hi list,
I'm looking for some great programmer's text editors that are
compattible with NVDA and/or JAWS. Since the latest NVDA seems to have
some significant improvements over previous versions, I was wondering
which text editors might now also become compattible with NVDA. It would
actualy be a good idea to setup a few pages with tables comparing how
well each editor works with all the diferent screen readers. Such a
comparison database would be a great idea for a one stop refernce for
many kinds of applications, but I thought the most important one for a
programmer is definately a good text editor.

Would other members on this list be interested in and/or willing to
assist in compiling such a database?

I think it could save a lot of time and effort for all of us if there
could be a one stop database with profiles of useful applications,
categorised by the job they perform and how well they perform that job.
To start off, it could be limited to apps useful to programmers and text
editors in particular.

Regards.

--
Kerneels Roos
Cell: +27 (0)82 309 1998
Skype: cornelis.roos



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