Re: [orca-list] [OT] emacs

[Christopher Chaltain <chaltain gmail com>]

I've always just used Emacs. I've always assumed XEmacs was Emacs with 
some better GUI integration, but I'm just guessing. I'm on the Emacspeak 
list, and I don't know of a blind person using XEmacs.

Technically you could probably use Emacs in a console with Speakup or in 
a terminal with Orca, but I think you get the most power from Emacs if 
you use it with Emacspeak. For example, you'll get voice fonts, auditory 
icons and in general you'll hear just the information you want to hear 
automatically.

I use Emacspeak with eSpeak myself in Ubuntu. If you want, I can send 
you the steps I use to get it all working. It's pretty easy if you're 
comfortable with apt-get and using makefiles.

I just use Emacs for a bit of Python programming these days, but I used 
to use it a lot for shell scripting, AWK, PERL, LISP, C, C++ and Java. 
In addition to syntax highlighting, you can use templates, folding, 
automatic indentation, jump directly from compile errors to the line of 
code generating the error, integration with function finding utilities 
and so on. Basically, you can get yourself a pretty powerful integrated 
development environment.

BTW, unless you want to talk about using Emacs with Orca, it's probably 
best to take this to the Emacspeak or one of the handful of general 
Linux for the blind lists out there. Here's the information I have on 
the Emacspeak list:
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To subscribe to the emacspeak list emacspeak list send mail to 
"emacspeak-request cs vassar edu" with a subject of "subscribe".


On 04/14/2013 06:38 PM, Bill Dengler(Ubuntu) wrote:
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> Hello,
> I have a few questions about emacs.
> Should I use xemacs or emacs? Are there any benefits to using one over
> the other?
> I read about a project that made emacs support speech synths called
> emacspeak. I use software speech, the Espeak synth to be exact. Are
> there any ways to get espeak working with Emacspeak in an Ubuntu
> environment? Do we even need emacspeak anymore? Or am I reading out of
> date stuff?
> Other than syntax highlighting, are there any other uses for using emacs
> as a code editor for a totally blind user?
>
> Bill
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Christopher (CJ)
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