Re: writing code in emacspeak
- From: Jared Wright <wright.jaredm@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2010 13:29:48 -0400
There are two pretty well accepted facts about Emacs and Emacspeak.
1. The learning curve is steep as just about anything.
2. If you can get over the hump, Emacspeak is the most productive
environment for a blind programmer around today. This is because, as
you've alluded to, all those nice features of development environments
that usually give our AT fits works hand in hand with our AT in Emacs.
That learning curve is not trivial. I still fire up Edsharp, Gedit, or
Eclipse more than Emacs simly because I haven't myself gotten as
comfortable as I'd like with it. But from a potential standpoint it's
mindblowing. And yes, there're very matured Emacs environments for C++,
Python, and just about any other language you might hit.
On 10/19/2010 11:16 AM, Alex Midence wrote:
Hi, folks,
I wondered if any of you could substantiate this or not. I ran across
something recently that said that in Emacspeak, you can get usable
feedback on color highlighting for different programming languages.
Has anyone here tried writing code in emacs or emacspeak? If so, how
did it tell you about color highlighting? Did it change voice or
pitch or something? Was it usable? In windows, I've tried setting
AJaws to let me know the color attributes but it just gets out of hand
since instead of changing voices, it wants to actually say the color
of the foreground, background and the like. I got ahold of emacspeak
yesterday on vinux but I'm still making my way through the manual.
It's a bit much to put it mildly. The potential is huge though from
what I'm reading. Does anyone have any actual experience with it
though? With c++? Anyone? How about Python and its indentations?
Thanks.
Alex M
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