Wondering if there are any Notepad++ users on list. I thought I recalled
Aaron using it at one point and some others might that I do not know
about. If so, I'm wondering about some inaccuracy in the text editing
window that I see with Window Eyes. When moving by word or character, I
often get dings or double speaking of characters when there shouldn't
be. For example, consider the line:
this (is a test) how fun
Basically every time I arrow over this text in Notepad++ by character,
the paren characters are spoken twice instead of the paren character and
the character immediately to its right. For instance, the 'i' in 'is' is
always replaced when reviewing by character by a '(', and instead of the
space character I'd expect I get the ')' spoken.. These results are the
same no matter which direction I'm moving in. Also, moving by word
consistently produces dings, and they seem particularly concentrated
when the word has leading or trailing parentheses. Is this something in
Notepad++'s syntax highlighting that is confusing Window Eyes? I
disabled the 'Enable current line highlighting' in the preferences
dialog, but no difference. I have changed the language setting to text
(figuring this has the least amount of syntax highlighting cuteness) but
again no difference. I have reclassed the text area to an editbox, but
that also does not produce any different results for better or worse.
If noone's played with Notepad++, please ignore my ranting, although
I'm taking suggestions for windows text editors with strong coding
features. EdSharp is fantastic at first glance, but it has a collection
of quirky, difficult to duplicate bugs that make it frustrating to work
with sometimes. I'm a little cool on UltraEdit, 'cause $50 seems a lot
for a text editor, and VBSEdit is apparently good, but the majority of
my programming is not in VBScript. I have been doing more programming
targeted at the Windows platform lately (including a few things for
Window Eyes), and it's just not convenient to do the coding for this in
Emacs and GEdit over on the Linux side, which is what I've been doing
for some time.
- Notepad++ (Possibly Slightly OT) Jared Wright
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