Re: [orca-list] Another Suggestion for OpenOffice/Orca Improvement

[Jan and Bertil Smark Nilsson <jbsn tpg com au>]

Greetings,

On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 11:06:37AM -0400, Janina Sajka wrote:
> This suggestion may seem wacky, but I am most earnest. So, I articulate
> my thought here wondering whether I'm alone in my insanity.
>
> I would dearly love to "gene splice" OpenOffice && { vim | emacs }
>
> Since I've been a vim user mostly, I'll make my examples vim specific.
> But, the same would hold for emacs.
>
> Having now worked with Orca and OpenOffice (off and on) for the better
> part of a year, I still find myself hampered by the inherently
> mouse-oriented "highlight and click" nature of the editing process. I'm
> sure it's great for mouse users, but it's [expletive deleted] for me.
> Yes, I feel pretty strong about this.
>
> If I want to delete one, or maybbe 4 lines, I have to carefully
> highlight that block before deleting in OpenOffice. In vim I simply do
> d$, or dd, or d4d, depending.
If the OO people could be persuaded to provide a few more shortcut keys, 
the problem would be solved. We all have our favourite editors. I use 
Wordperfect for DOS through dosemu, and it works perfectly - within its 
limitations. One good feature is that you can hit alt-f4, and when you 
move your cursor the text becomes highlighted. it's a very useful 
feature for copying to clipboard, cutting and pasting and moving blocks 
of text around. It would, however, be pretty handy for brailly users to 
be able to use shft+cursor-routing keys to highlight text that way, just 
as you can do shft+end and highlight a whole line.

Bertil