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

[Hermann <meinelisten onlinehome de>]

am So 18. Mai 2008 um 10:58:03 schrieb Jan and Bertil Smark Nilsson <jbsn tpg com au>:
> > 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.
 
I also think that extending OO by some keyboard relating features would be 
sufficient.
But it's definitly not an Orca issue.
And BTW.: Would someone be so kind and explain to a completely 
unenlightened person like me, why the use of Vim is "scientific"?
Hermann