Yuma Antoine Decaux wrote:

> To all who developed vim for mac.
> 
> I am a blind software engineering student and have been struggling to
> find the right coding environment. I tried macvim last week on counts
> of my friends recommending it, and once i turned core text renderer
> off, though visual mode is not accessible to me, all the other key
> commands do, which has really increased my capacity to navigate around
> code lengthier than 500 lines. The experience is like jumping from a
> physical dial nokia to the iphone 5S. This is awesome. And the more
> commands i learn, the better it gets. thank you guys for this
> application.
> 
> Now on for a few comments, haha :)
> 
> 1-voice over related:
> 
> I've noticed that when reading through lines, vim does not read out
> the last character, such as ; for endss of statements. It's not too
> bad as i can just $i then check if the closure is there but i thought
> i would mention this.

Just guessing: Perhaps setting 'virtualedit' to "onemore" helps:
        :set ve=onemore

> 2-When (i assume) the text reaches the bottom of the visible area, vim
> has some difficulty scrolling further down. I use the /'string'
> command to jump around, but when i'm in a block of code but it happens
> to be at the bottom of the visible area, then either the up/down arrow
> or j or k get clunky. To note, the system alert sound triggers so i'm
> assuming this also happens to visual coders. Am i doing something
> wrong here?

Perhaps you want to use CTRL-E?
 
> Apart from the above, everything is smooth. Obviously, i'm not a power
> user yet so my requests might not be technical, but this might help
> for other blind coders out there. 

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