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

  • From: Tyler Littlefield <tyler@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2009 12:27:53 -0700

I don't know about the mac, but I could probably get it going on linux easily 
enough. I'll try it out.
On Nov 30, 2009, at 11:41 AM, Chris Hofstader wrote:

> 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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