Hi, I am having to use a mac for work and am running into some very aanoying limitations I hope some of you may have found workarounds for. These mainly show up when using Vim and Emacs from a shell.
In Vim, every time I arrow through files I get loads of "space space space space space" jabbered at me, with the braille display showing this briefly as well every time I arrow up or down. Needless to say this is incredibly annoying, can this be stopped somehow? I realize tdsr exists, but I'm guessing braille won't be included in that. Also, brltty might work on mac but how well? Does anyone have experience with this? I haven't played with Emacs much yet but I am foreseeing similar issues. Even when using emacspeak, I'll once again have the issue of not having braille track the speech properly. BRLTTY might help in this case, if VBoiceOver doesn't monopolize the braille display that is, or if switching between VoiceOver and brltty + emacspeak can be done relatively seemlessly. Once again, any experiences you guys may have on this is very much appreciated. On the GUI side, TextMate seems to be the only halfway decent code editor that's not a complete disaster with VoiceOver, unless I've missed an undiscovered gem. TextMate seems ok, but poorly documented. Is anyone using it with success on here, if so, what keystrokes do you use the most? Are thee any other tips you guys might have for an accessible development environment on OS X latest? I do have a Windows VM running in Fusion for if things get really dicy, but dev is heavy enough on the hardware resources as is so if I don't have to introduce a VM into the mix that would obviously be preferred. Not to mention the incredibly annoying tendency on OS X's side to intercept some key combinations meant for the VM, most notably windows+m minimizing my friggin' vm instance. :P I'm open to your ideas, I really am, and any frustration evident from this post is purely a by-product of having to grab for my Windows VM far too often for comfort so far, most notably in advanced web app scenarios and efficient software dev. Please enlighten me on how to be efficient without it in these areas. Regards, Florian -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor. You can reach mark at: [email protected] and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at [email protected] The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
