Re: [orca-list] miscellaneous Orca comments

[David Csercsics <aarg shaw ca>]

> I have noticed the same thing.  I have also had the experience you 
> describe with gvim.  I'd suggest using gedit when in Gnome.

Yeah, you can certainly do that though it is not as usable as vim as far
as functionality is concerned. I find that vim has a much better interface
for a lot of things especially when it comes to coding. I can't find a
nice equivalent for a lot of the vim functionality in gedit like folds,
for example. Or the % keystroke. There are a bunch of other nice features
that vim has that I like as well. So while you can certainly use gedit
it is less efficient and I'm really not up for using an inferior text
editor when the other should work. The gnome terminal access should be a
bit better than it is. I don't know how to fix most things because it's
not obvious to me what is broken but I'd be happy to help work on it if
somebody wants to help figure out where the problems are. Ideally I'd
like to use gnome terminal for my usual terminal work which includes
things like text editing and email and the like without a lot of
clunkiness. Gnome terminal has issues with scrolling text as well. I
know what's going on but it is not obvious to me how to fix the issues. I
can work around the existing problems with the terminal with a bit of
effort but it should be fixed at some point to make things that much
more usable.