Re: [orca-list] Vim, is it usable for us?

[Jason White <jason jasonjgw net>]

Yes, Vim works well with a screen reader. You'll probably achieve better 
results with Fenrir or Speakup than with Orca in Gnome-Terminal, though. 
It also works well with a braille display, which is what I generally use.

It's easy to apply the editor commands once you've read the text to 
decide what changes you want to make. I tend to use Emacs for serious 
writing projects, but that just reflects my preference rather than any 
limitation of Vim.

On 8/30/20 4:41 PM, Rastislav Kish via orca-list wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> during my Linux adventures, I couldn't have missed possibly one of the 
> most legendary Linux tools, Vim.
>
> Vim's philosophy of writing and editing text with a language was 
> completely new for me, so I have quite enjoyed learning about it.
>
>
> However, after reading some introductory texts and few experiments, I 
> have two questions:
>
> * how usable is Vim with Orca? I have noticed various rather strange 
> behaviors like reading currently missed word when navigating character 
> by character or reading a line in somewhat shuffled order when I 
> approach it from the next line. H, J, K and L keys doesn't seem to 
> work at all, I have to use arrow keys, I don't know, whether this is 
> function of Vim or Orca.
>
> * Is Vim potentially useful for blind people? I can imagine, that when 
> a sighted person sees the whole layout of a page, he / she has an 
> imagination in his / her head what he / she wants to select, delete or 
> replace, and thus a way to express it wia a special language can be 
> very handy. However, blind people don't have this ability, we rather 
> know our current position and drag the selection from it, until we 
> find the ending point, as our view is limited to max. one line at once.
>
> So, the question is, is the ability to define operations with a 
> language still that advantageous under these circumstances? On a 
> graphical system, would you use Vim over a traditional editor like 
> Pluma, or something similar with plugins, and if yes why?
>
>
> Best regards
>
>
> Rastislav
>
>
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