Re: [orca-list] Orca and IDEs

[Michael Whapples <mwhapples aim com>]

On Sat, 2008-07-12 at 21:13 +1000, Jason White wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 12:10:46PM +0100, Michael Whapples wrote:
> > I wonder if anyone can suggest some IDEs which work well with orca. 
>
> Emacs, run from gnome-terminal, or much better, run with Emacspeak installed
> if you use speech output. 
Strange that, I seemed to be heading for the emacs answer anyway. I was
thinking of emacspeak in a text console, but I would like braille as
well (I don't know whether brltty in a text console will be as good as
from a screen reader which may do more intelegent processing of what to
display). What about speechd-el? Supposedly speechd-el supports brltty
as well as speech-dispatcher, but when I used it, it had some annoying
behaviours eg. brailling the words "blank line" when the line is blank
instead of showing a blank braille line.

I keep intending to learn emacs, but I keep putting it off, may be I
just need to sit down and spend some time learning the few thousand key
presses.

> There are various development-oriented Emacs packages available, though I
> haven't used them personally. For example, oo-browser is said to be excellent
> for Java projects, and it may support Python as well. With Emacspeak, the
> Python mode will announce the indentation level of each line. In all modes (C,
> Java, Python, etc.), Emacspeak offers aural syntax highlighting.