I do use NP++, but not with a screen reader -- it's a sighted thing. The
issue you're having has to do with the fact, inane that it is, that they
redraw the entire line every time the cursor blinks. You can get around
this problem in Notepad++ by changing the default theme to something
like Zenburn (under Settings -> Style Configurator -> Select Theme). One
potential drawback to that is your highlights will most likely be
affected. You could instead just change the font style of the default
theme to something like Consolas instead of Couriew New. I'm not sure we
have a solution for this -- they're really doing awful things with the text.
Aaron
On 3/27/2011 9:36 PM, Jared Wright wrote:
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.
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