Hi,
I am quite familiar with vim, having used it under Linux for quite a number
of years.
Unfortunately having used Eclipse for the better part of three years now, I
am a bit attached to having a full featured IDE at my disposal.
Being able to click on a method and immediately be taken to it's source,
code folding, auto completion, all those niceties which make my life as a
developer that much easier.
However vim is definitely light weight, so it might be worth revisiting, at
least for small Ruby scripting tasks.
In answer to your question, the 3.4 builds of Eclipse are quite accessible
with VoiceOver.
There are obviously a few little quirks, as there is with any screen reader,
but I find it perfectly usable for all my Java dev stuff.
The one little annoyance is that the keyboard shortcuts are not announced in
the menus, which was my biggest frustration after switching from Windows, as
a number of the keyboard shortcuts are different, however I have raised a
bug about this issue and I believe it has been fixed in the next release,
when ever that might be.
----- Original Message -----
From: "yvonne thomson" <[email protected]>
To: "General discussions on all topics relating to the use of Mac OS X by
theblind" <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, December 14, 2008 7:48 AM
Subject: Re: TextMate
Hi.
Re textmate, I actually sent the author an email about this, and the
response was something like, "maybe in 2.0" and that was ages ago.
Someone elses thought about bbedit, as far as I know, won't work either,
since it has the same problem as textmate, accessible in almost all ways
*except* being able to see text, <grin>.
It seems to be a relatively common problem with cocoa text editors, for
reasons I'm not entirely sure of.
Here's what I've used for this stuff.
Smultron subethedit <not sure of the spelling on that one>
What I ended up with was vim, or more specifically, macvim. There's some
stuff about it in the archives, or at least there should be, or I can
repost with some updated content, since I've been using it since.
Learning vim initially was kind of a pain, but as a programmer for more
than ten years I can say I've never enjoyed an editor more once I got
used to it, <grin>.
Not to mention, the ruby/rails support in vim is pretty good, and some
prominent rubyists have switched to it recently.
BTW, *does* eclypse work under OS X? I mean, accessibly?
