Re: looking for an editor on the mac to use for coding

  • From: Chris Hofstader <cdh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 1 Dec 2009 11:13:29 -0500

Emacs has bindings for nearly every programming language known to mankind that 
are automatically turned on when you open a file with a known extension (so, 
haven't you always wanted to program in PL/1?).

cdh
On Dec 1, 2009, at 10:36 AM, DaShiell, Jude T. CIV NAVAIR 1490, 1, 26 wrote:

> Isn't that where you put each file in its own window and then go moving
> through windows in emacs?  I think that's described in the tutorial.
> Also, I'm pretty certain with python you just get in there and code and
> emacs does your indenting for you.
> 
> 
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> It is easy to set up a way to rapidly move from to file in emacs but I
> can't think of it right now.  If I was in a shell I could check for you
> but I don't even have a GNU/Linux thing booted right now.
> 
> If you can get it running on Mac, though, emacspeak does an incredible
> job for blind hackers with indentation levels and the like.  Raman made
> emacspeak so he could hack so it's really a dream machine for blind
> hackers.
> 
> cdh 
> On Nov 30, 2009, at 12:14 PM, Tyler Littlefield wrote:
> 
>> Chris,
>> I'll take a look into it. edsharp always told me about the indentation
> levels, but I can't really expect that with emacs, so I need to find
> another way to use it.
>> I do have a question re: emacs though that you'll probably be able to
> answer.
>> I want to set up multiple tabs of sorts so I can easily switch from
> file to file. Is this an easy possibility?
>> Thanks,
>> 
>> On Nov 30, 2009, at 8:16 AM, Chris Hofstader wrote:
>> 
>>> I believe emacs has python bindings that help keep indentation and
> the like in order.
>>> 
>>> I've been using emacs for more than 25 years so my problem is that I
> find myself using its commands in other editors and then wondering why
> it didn't work.
>>> 
>>> I think someone made an interpreter for a language that looks a lot
> like C to execute emacs macros.  I really like Lisp for handling text
> but I'm also old, crusty and cranky.
>>> 
>>> cdh
>>> On Nov 30, 2009, at 8:14 AM, Tyler Littlefield wrote:
>>> 
>>>> hello,
>>>> I like the idea of emacs, I think it's just the issue of getting
> used to it and all it's hotkeys. That and I have to use lisp (ug) to add
> anything to it really. How do you handle python code with it? if it
> works I'd be totally happy learning it, I just need to figure out the
> most commonly used hotkeys.
>>>> 
>>>> On Nov 30, 2009, at 6:01 AM, Chris Hofstader wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> I often use emacs from the terminal command prompt.  It's a really
> excellent editor that, nearly 30 years after its first version, still
> holds its own against flashier and newer editors/IDes like eclipse or
> VisualStudio.  
>>>>> 
>>>>> I do not know if one can use emacspeak in the Macintosh terminal
> but, if so, it turns from a good solution to what is probably the best
> tool for blind hackers.
>>>>> 
>>>>> cdh
>>>>> On Nov 29, 2009, at 6:36 PM, Tyler Littlefield wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>>> Hello list,
>>>>>> I'm currently looking for an editor that I can use to code with on
> the mac.
>>>>>> Does anyone have any ideas? I don't have  my windows system
> anymore, and editing in a vmware doesn't work with jaws; it labels a lot
> of things as blank lines and etc.
>>>>>> Any suggestions on an accessible editor would be really cool.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>> tyler Littlefield
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