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

  • From: Tyler Littlefield <tyler@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 1 Dec 2009 10:00:32 -0700

how would you tell it to end the if statements and such? I can't really see 
just writing out pythin code and letting it indent. if I have an if statement 
and then I return back to the main scope brefore the if statement, emacs won't 
just randomly know what I want.

On Dec 1, 2009, at 9:13 AM, Chris Hofstader wrote:

> 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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>> Hofstader
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>> 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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