Yuma, I am not very experienced in this area but I was wondering if you considered Emacspeak : ( http://emacspeak.sourceforge.net/releases/release-38.0.html).
This is not to knock vim or anything but Emacspeak won the ACM dissertation award for its author. Shriphani On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 4:21 AM, Yuma Antoine Decaux <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi, > > Seems like control-e doesn't work. > > As for settings for vim, i'm not sure how to start yet. Will get to it > this weekend. > > Cheers, > > Yuma > > > > "Light has no value without darkness" > > > > On 20/09/2013, at 1:41 AM, Bram Moolenaar <[email protected]> wrote: > > > 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. > > > -- > hundred-and-one symptoms of being an internet addict: > 234. You started college as a chemistry major, and walk out four years > later as an Internet provider. > > /// Bram Moolenaar -- [email protected] -- http://www.Moolenaar.net \\\ > /// sponsor Vim, vote for features -- http://www.Vim.org/sponsor/\\\ > \\\ an exciting new programming language -- http://www.Zimbu.org /// > \\\ help me help AIDS victims -- http://ICCF-Holland.org /// > > > -- > -- > You received this message from the "vim_mac" maillist. > Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. > For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "vim_mac" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- PhD Candidate at Carnegie Mellon University, http://shriphani.com/ http://github.com/shriphani -- -- You received this message from the "vim_mac" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_mac" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
