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

  • From: "DaShiell, Jude T. CIV NAVAIR 1490, 1, 26" <jude.dashiell@xxxxxxxx>
  • To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 1 Dec 2009 11:20:16 -0500

I wish that were the case, it would have been nice to have had emacs
indent my visualbasic code for me properly but .vb is not one of the
known extensions.  What happens when you try editing a .vb file with
emacs is that emacs incorrectly detects this as a pascal file and
indents accordingly.  Now that may actually be the correct indenting for
.vb files but it tends to shake the confidence of users to the editor.
If I knew more lisp I might write something for emacs to fix this
deficiency it might only need to be as simple as telling emacs to
recognize the .vb file extension as visualbasic and to use the pascal
indents for such files.
 


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[mailto:programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Chris
Hofstader
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Subject: Re: looking for an editor on the mac to use for coding
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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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> [mailto:programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Chris
> Hofstader
> Sent: Monday, November 30, 2009 13:42
> To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: looking for an editor on the mac to use for coding
> 
> 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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