RE: Quest for the Perfect Text Editor

  • From: "Homme, James" <james.homme@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: "programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2010 10:40:07 -0500

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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