RE: Quest for the Perfect Text Editor

  • From: "Ken Perry" <whistler@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2010 23:24:36 -0500

I think the problem is he did not fix it as he has said he removed a
settings thing and may have broke it in other places all though it fixed the
load issue.  

Ken

-----Original Message-----
From: programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of The Elf
Sent: Tuesday, November 30, 2010 6:58 PM
To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Quest for the Perfect Text Editor

yes, and ty, if you fixed it, why not share your work, and make things 
better for us by giving us this modified file that makes Ed sharp work 
better?

why try to force the recreation of the wheel?

*sigh*

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jamal Mazrui" <empower@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: "Littlefield, Tyler" <tyler@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, November 29, 2010 6:28 PM
Subject: Re: Quest for the Perfect Text Editor


> Tyler,
> Please let us know when you actually publish a free, open source 
> application, including documentation, that people besides yourself find 
> worthwhile to use ....
>
> Jamal
>
> On 11/29/2010 12:30 PM, Littlefield, Tyler wrote:
>> It's in edsharp.cs in the edsharp folder. I recommend lots of pain
>> killers before you begin...
>> On 11/29/2010 9:09 AM, RicksPlace wrote:
>>> Hi: Is that .net code? If so is it vb.net or csharp or what? Someone
>>> mentioned .net before but I am not sure about it. I am just interested
>>> a little to see how it was developed.
>>> Rick USA
>>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Littlefield, Tyler"
>>> <tyler@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> Sent: Monday, November 29, 2010 9:14 AM
>>> Subject: Re: Quest for the Perfect Text Editor
>>>
>>>
>>>> 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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>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Ty
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