Linux GUI FAQ/tutorial?

[Octavian Râsnita]

To be sincere, I don't remember now, but I remember that I posted on 
blindprogramming my experience with that editor when I tried it.

I don't remember if it was the case of this editor or with the other editor 
made by Jamal, but I didn't like that it contained too many hotkeys 
pre-defined that conflicted with other hotkeys I have defined on my 
computer, without beeing able to change those hotkeys in that editor.
And that time it also missed some features, but as I said, I don't remember 
because it past a long time since.

What I actually like is a text editor made in C/C++, very fast (so no DotNet 
or Java) with many features and options and hotkeys that can be changed.


--
Octavian

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jude DaShiell" <jdashiel at shellworld.net>
To: "Linux for blind general discussion" <blinux-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Friday, January 22, 2010 4:18 AM
Subject: Re: Linux GUI FAQ/tutorial?


> 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...
>>
>> This page lists 243 text editors for Linux.
>> http://www.linuxlinks.com/Software/Editors/
>>
>> 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/
>>
>> 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
>>
>>
>> "Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security does not exist in 
>> nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding 
>> danger is no safer in the long run than exposure."
>> ~ Helen Keller
>>
>>
>> --- On Thu, 1/21/10, Octavian R?snita <orasnita at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> 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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