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

  • From: Chris Hofstader <cdh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2009 13:41:36 -0500

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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