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

  • From: "Homme, James" <james.homme@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: "programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2009 12:51:51 -0500

Hi Tyler,
Maybe you can write your code, then use a pretty printing program that would 
indent your code for you, or maybe Emacs would have macros that already do that.

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[mailto:programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Tyler Littlefield
Sent: Monday, November 30, 2009 12:15 PM
To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: looking for an editor on the mac to use for coding

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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