Re: [orca-list] 1 accessible IDE for multi perpous use

[Vojtěch Polášek <krecoun gmail com>]

Now I remember that long time ago I used Medit. It is a GTK based editor
with support for many programming alnguages and some plugins. It is
prety lightweight.

Best regards,

Vojta


Dne 16.2.2017 v 07:52 B. Henry napsal(a):
> Is there a reason you can not or won't use speakup to use emacs or vim in a console?
> In the GUI with orca one option is bluefish. It does have some features that make it a bit nicer than 
> something like gedit for coding, and don't forget 
> to look at all of the plug-ins gedit has in case any of them are to your liking, e.g. the snippit one, auto 
> bracket completion, and probably another one 
> or two that I'm not remembering right now.
> There is also the new fenrir screenreader that I believe can be used in both terminal emulators as well as 
> true VT-consoles. I don't know if it gives 
> one a better experience with the classic  CLI text editors like vi or emacs, but it might be worth your 
> while to give it a test drive.
> I am a big fan of speakup and working in the oldschool CLI, and do much of my day in day out work there, 
> e.g. %90 of my email, many of my searches, 
> (usually c with the excellent surfraw and a text-based browser like elinks or lynx), and a lot of my 
> reading and writing of .txt and other text files 
> such 
> as shell scripts and html.
> Then of course there are all of the awesome GNU and other Xnix tools and utilities that I generally prefer 
> to run directly in the CLI or leveraged by 
> custom scripts. 
> I'm also a big fan of Orca, do not think I'm some kind of a CLI purist or dinosaur stuck back in the days 
> when computers didn't have the horse power to 
> waste on a GUI, much less a luddite, resistent to changes or too lazy to learn anything new. If you don't 
> have a fast machine with plenty of RAM though   
> you will certainly appreciate the system resources you can save working in a console and not even starting 
> a graphical desktop when you don't need it.
> For the most part the stability of CLI apps themselves, and these apps run with speakup is great, and 
> accessibility complications are rare except for 
> content that is automatically updating rapidly 
> ;;;;;;;