Re: [orca-list] Accessibility Breakage in Eclipse

[Krishnakant <krmane openmailbox org>]

On Saturday 04 June 2016 12:50 AM, Jason White wrote:
> 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.
So can Emacspeak be run in gnome-terminal?
Orca is already such a great screen reader that I practically can't 
imagine being without it and switching between cli console and gui is 
not a good idea I feel.
And yes Aptana is a forke of eclipse and may as well be tryed out.
happy hacking.
Krishnakant.