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

["Bart Bunting" <bart ursys com au>]

Hi,

I suggest you might like to try emacspeak with emacs and python-mode.  

Whilst there is a steap learning curve you will find that with the excellent
speech output of emacspeak and the IDE features of emacs and python-mode
programming in python will be much more efficient for you.  

That is provided you are willing to put in the initial effort of learning
emacs, emacspeak and python mode.

Regards

Bart


-----Original Message-----
From: orca-list-bounces gnome org [mailto:orca-list-bounces gnome org] On
Behalf Of Isaac Porat
Sent: Tuesday, February 09, 2010 8:36 AM
To: orca-list gnome org
Subject: [orca-list] Orca, Python and blind programming

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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