Re: [orca-list] Accessibility Breakage in Eclipse

[Jason White <jason jasonjgw net>]

Hunter Jozwiak <hunter t joz gmail com> wrote:
> I am not sure if this is just me, but I can't seem to use very much of
> Eclipse at all. I can navigate the tree views for the package explorer and
> the project manager, but the editor is totally unusable. 

This has been discussed recently on the list. So far as I can remember, bug
reports were sent to Eclipse developers.

> Is there an
> laternative IDE? I've tried out Bluefish, which left something to be desired
> in terms of code completion. NetBeans won't speak.


There are very powerful extensions to Emacs that support software development.
You can run Emacs in a terminal, or, much better in my opinion, install
Emacspeak. (If you install Emacspeak, be sure to subscribe to the Emacspeak
mailing list and ask any questions there.)

Some Web searches and a visit to the Emacs wiki should help you to find out
what tools are now available in Emacs for working with your preferred
programming languages.
 Emacs is much more than a text editor. Extensions written in Emacs Lisp can
 provide very sophisticated functionality. I know the Emacs developers have
 been improving their programming language parsing in recent releases, but I
 don't know which extensions are the best at the moment for various
 programming tasks.