Re: writing code in emacspeak
- From: Alex Midence <alex.midence@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2010 13:20:18 -0500
Yep. I thought so. The more of the manual I read, the more excited I
got. The learning curve does indeed seem a bit steep but, I think
steps can be taken to minimize it. Some braille cards with hotkey
lists or a little braille booklet with them would go a long way
towards this. From there, it's just systematic memorization. I think
I'll make a brf file and sweet talk someone I know with a working
braille printer to print me up some of them. That, or I can at last
pin down the drivers I need for mine to work with xp. got an old,
very very old index braille printer.
That, or just using an excel spreadsheet with my braille display set
to read entire row ought to do the trick.
Thanks for responding. MindBlowing is an apt description of how I
regard such a thing.
Alex M
On 10/19/10, Jared Wright <wright.jaredm@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> There are two pretty well accepted facts about Emacs and Emacspeak.
>
> 1. The learning curve is steep as just about anything.
> 2. If you can get over the hump, Emacspeak is the most productive
> environment for a blind programmer around today. This is because, as
> you've alluded to, all those nice features of development environments
> that usually give our AT fits works hand in hand with our AT in Emacs.
>
> That learning curve is not trivial. I still fire up Edsharp, Gedit, or
> Eclipse more than Emacs simly because I haven't myself gotten as
> comfortable as I'd like with it. But from a potential standpoint it's
> mindblowing. And yes, there're very matured Emacs environments for C++,
> Python, and just about any other language you might hit.
> On 10/19/2010 11:16 AM, Alex Midence wrote:
>> Hi, folks,
>>
>> I wondered if any of you could substantiate this or not. I ran across
>> something recently that said that in Emacspeak, you can get usable
>> feedback on color highlighting for different programming languages.
>> Has anyone here tried writing code in emacs or emacspeak? If so, how
>> did it tell you about color highlighting? Did it change voice or
>> pitch or something? Was it usable? In windows, I've tried setting
>> AJaws to let me know the color attributes but it just gets out of hand
>> since instead of changing voices, it wants to actually say the color
>> of the foreground, background and the like. I got ahold of emacspeak
>> yesterday on vinux but I'm still making my way through the manual.
>> It's a bit much to put it mildly. The potential is huge though from
>> what I'm reading. Does anyone have any actual experience with it
>> though? With c++? Anyone? How about Python and its indentations?
>>
>> Thanks.
>> Alex M
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