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

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

On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 10:16:11PM -0700, Peter Korn wrote:
> Hi Janina,
>
> OOo Writer has keyboard functionality for navigation by paragraph: 
> Ctrl-Up/Down arrow.  Add shift to select.  For deleting lines, Home 
> followed by shift up/down arrow will select lines you can then delete.
>
> Not the same - and in many cases not as fast - as vi.  But in case you 
> didn't already know about these...
>
>
> Separately, I just took a "Hands on Lab" class at the recent JavaOne 
> conference, where I learned about writing OpenOffice.org extensions - 
> specifically Java using NetBeans.  One option for folks wanting more 
> vi/emacs-style (or WordPerfect style, for that matter) keyboard gestures 
> would be to write an OOo Writer extension to encapsulate just that 
> functionality.  This should be a far easier task that trying to modify 
> the actual OOo codebase itself.  I haven't dug into the details of 
> making keyboard gesture modifications (the lab covered adding menu 
> items, dialog boxes, file translators/converters, and adding smart 
> tags), but it appears that most of the object model is exposed to 
> extension writers.
 
That all sounds very promising. Where can one find more information?

Regards,

Bertil