Re: [orca-list] Orca, Python and blind programming

[jose vilmar estacio de souza <vilmar informal com br>]

Hi,
Eclipse has a plugin  called pydev that helps a lot.
The problem is that eclipse is not working well with orca, at least in 
my karmic machine.
Thanks.

On 02/08/2010 07:35 PM, Isaac Porat wrote:
> Hi
>
> I have experience in developing software in a number of computer 
> languages.
> Orca is written in Python no doubt for good reasons.
>
> As a blind programmer who rely on speech (I lost my sight to late in 
> life to be using Braille) I find the way Python mark blocks of 
> instructions with indentation practically  unusable with speech with a 
> screen reader (other languages mostly use brackets for this purpose 
> which is easy to deal with).
>
> I know that there are hacks out there to use a pre processor to 
> translate from brackets to indentations but these are probably of no 
> use with an IDE; I do not wish to go back to text editor for software 
> development.
> So if somebody knows an efficient way of dealing with this I will be 
> interested to know.
>
> Thanks
> Regards
> Isaac
>
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