Linux GUI FAQ/tutorial?

[Jude DaShiell]

What was your experience with edsharp under windows?  That editor was 
written by a blind programmer for blind users of windows and has specific 
support for lots of programming development.  Unfortunately, our Federal 
Government never saw fit to have it installed on software developer's 
computers inside of D.O.D. yet.On Thu, 21 Jan 2010, Roopakshi Pathania 
wrote:

>> From: Octavian R?snita <orasnita at gmail.com>:
>> However as I said, my biggest fear remains the text editor.
>> Under Windows there is no text editor without issues. The
>> best is TextPad, but it doesn't fully support UTF-8 which is
>> very bad.
>> I have tried tens of editors under Windows and all of them
>> have issues, but under Linux I think I don't have so many
>> editors to choose unfortunately.
>
> Actually, you do have a choice...
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> This page lists 243 text editors for Linux.
> http://www.linuxlinks.com/Software/Editors/
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> Since you are looking for something similar to a Windows based GUI editor, I recommend checking out the Gnome category.
> http://www.linuxlinks.com/Software/Editors/GNOME/
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> Of course, you could also go through the non Emacs and non vi categories.
> Also, be careful of the inaccessible environments like KDE (I hope I'm right in this regard).
> Regards
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> --- On Thu, 1/21/10, Octavian R?snita <orasnita at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> From: Octavian R?snita <orasnita at gmail.com>
>> Subject: Re: Linux GUI FAQ/tutorial?
>> To: "Linux for blind general discussion" <blinux-list at redhat.com>
>> Date: Thursday, January 21, 2010, 12:23 PM
>> Hi Trev,
>>
>> From: <trev.saunders at gmail.com>
>>> Personally I prefer yasr to speakup, and like vim as
>> an editor.  vi m works well with yasr, and is useable
>> with speakup.
>>
>> Well, maybe my espectations are wrong because they are
>> based mostly on my Linux - cli experience in a SecureCRT
>> console from Windows, but I was lost each time vi started as
>> a default editor.
>>
>> To be more specific, I would like to be able to use an
>> editor that lets me to use the arrow keys to read the text
>> line by line and word by word and char by char with up and
>> down arrows, control+left and right arrows, or simply the
>> left and right arrows, allow me to select the text using the
>> shift key, selected text that can be read by the screen
>> reader when I want to, to be able to copy/paste the text
>> from a program into another with a simple combination of
>> key, execute the currently open program source code with a
>> specified interpreter that also offers me the possibility of
>> specifying some parameters, find/replace using regular
>> expressions with a simple combination of keys, and very few
>> other things.
>>
>> I ask if these are possible, because as I said, when vi was
>> opened in an SSH console and I tried to use the arrow keys,
>> I used to hear only some beep sounds, without beeing able to
>> read anything, and instead of giving combinations of keys
>> for exiting/saving like Control+S, Control+Q or something
>> like that, I needed to type simple text commands like ":",
>> which is very strange for a modern editor.
>>
>>> I think by far the best option is mutt.
>>
>> I guess mutt is accessible under Linux. I have tried a
>> Windows version that had big accessibility issues.
>> Is mutt able to create/display html mail messages?
>> Can it group the messages by conversation? Can we define
>> more folders and rules for moving the messages automaticly
>> in those folders based on some conditions?
>> I guess the answer is yes, but I want to know what I should
>> expect.
>>
>>> agreed, bash makes a pretty excellent file manager.
>>
>> Well, for some tasks yes. I would be very happy if Windows
>> command prompt would have the features of bash. But for some
>> tasks a file manager like Windows Explorer is much better,
>> but it is good if there is one for Linux also.
>>
>> However as I said, my biggest fear remains the text editor.
>> Under Windows there is no text editor without issues. The
>> best is TextPad, but it doesn't fully support UTF-8 which is
>> very bad.
>> I have tried tens of editors under Windows and all of them
>> have issues, but under Linux I think I don't have so many
>> editors to choose unfortunately.
>>
>> Octavian
>>
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