RE: Quest for the Perfect Text Editor

  • From: "Homme, James" <james.homme@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: "programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2010 12:52:51 -0500

Hi,
I can find commented code and strip it with my puny C# knowledge. Maybe that's 
something I can help with. Thanks for leaving that job for me, Ty.

Jim

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-----Original Message-----
From: programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
[mailto:programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Littlefield, Tyler
Sent: Tuesday, November 30, 2010 12:09 PM
To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Quest for the Perfect Text Editor

It's not a question of formatting--vs can do that. It's just that the
code is messy and calls to lots of external libs and .net classes (like
microsoft.visubasic.io), that aren't needed, etc. There are also lots
and lots of lines that are just commented out (where I presume it's just
code that didn't work) that makes things dificult.
On 11/30/2010 9:43 AM, Alex Midence wrote:
> Just a question here:
>
> Arachnophelia and other editors like it include something called a
> "code beautifier" or "code formatting" function.  I know Code::blocks
> does, for instance and I think Eclipse does as well.  If it is a
> question of code readability, due to jumbled lines, long lines, etc.
> could the file not be run through one of those tools to separate out
> the blocks of code?  Just speculating.  I will freely admit that I
> don't know either c# or visual basic.  I know a small bit of c++ and I
> understand the syntax for c# at least is quite similar to c++ with
> using braces and semicolons and the like.  Perhaps, one of the tools
> used to format such code might be put to use in making this code more
> easily read?
>
> For the record, I too am a huge EdSharp fan.  In windows, it is now my
> text editor of choice.  I've recently been toying with Linux and
> virtual machines.  I have Edsharp up in one window and, using the
> unity feature in vmware, I have emacspeak up on another window and alt
> tab between the two as I learn emacspeak.  I take notes wiht Edsharp
> and plan to include them in a manual being worked on for Vinux.  To
> me, EdSharp is the closest thing windows has to Emacspeak for
> functionality and productivity if you are a blind person.  Like
> emacspeak, it extends beyond programming since I write outlines to
> powerpoint presentations and save them to rtf in edsharp and then suck
> them into a presentation in powerpoint.  I write my training materials
> in edsharp as text files and then paste them into word for tweaking
> and formatting before saving them as .docx files.  It saves me hours
> of frustration with office and other tools where I am wrestling with
> Jaws just during the document writing process.  Slow or not at start
> up (incidentally, emacs suffered similar criticisms in the past), it's
> a great editor and I am glad to have found it.  Incidentally, I find
> it only takes a few seconds to come up  for me and that's just the
> first time IK pull it up.  Probably five or six seconds max.  Every
> other time, it comes right up as fast as notepad or something like
> that.
>
> Alex
> M
>
>
>
> Tyler writes:
> yes. Even -if- I know what I'm talking about. Have you ever bothered
> looking at that code? not to mention the mangling I had to do to get my
> startup time to decrease from 45 seconds, we're using
> microsoft.visualbasic classes for IO. There's little to no docs. I spent
> hours messing with it, I know how frustrating it is. There's a
> difference in reading horrible code and cleanly well-written code. But
> of course, I just don't know what I'm talking about and code here isn't
> the key. What matters as long as it works? We'll just overlook some lag
> that an editor shouldn't experience -at all- for startup. Hell, 3-d
> games load faster. But then again, experience is the key, and I don't
> know what I'm talking about...
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Ty

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