Howdy, Vim is being used to compose this message. It is, in my opinion, the best text editor on the planet. Be warned though, if you do get into using it and have to use a graphical text editor for some reason, you'll most likely get a file with a lit of A :w, etc in it lol. I use it with Fenrir, most often in the console. It has spellcheck, and all sorts of nifty features including backups, macros, etc. You may need to disable the ruler by typing the following: :set noruler If you need to know line and column information, press control+g to have it briefly shown on the bottom line. you can make the noruler setting permanent by adding it to your ~/.vimrc. Thanks, Storm On Sun, Aug 30, 2020 at 04:56:33PM -0400, Orca-list wrote:
Yes, Vim works well with a screen reader. You'll probably achieve better results with Fenrir or Speakup than with Orca in Gnome-Terminal, though. It also works well with a braille display, which is what I generally use.It's easy to apply the editor commands once you've read the text to decide what changes you want to make. I tend to use Emacs for serious writing projects, but that just reflects my preference rather than any limitation of Vim.On 8/30/20 4:41 PM, Rastislav Kish via orca-list wrote:Hi folks,during my Linux adventures, I couldn't have missed possibly one of the most legendary Linux tools, Vim.Vim's philosophy of writing and editing text with a language was completely new for me, so I have quite enjoyed learning about it.However, after reading some introductory texts and few experiments, I have two questions:* how usable is Vim with Orca? I have noticed various rather strange behaviors like reading currently missed word when navigating character by character or reading a line in somewhat shuffled order when I approach it from the next line. H, J, K and L keys doesn't seem to work at all, I have to use arrow keys, I don't know, whether this is function of Vim or Orca.* Is Vim potentially useful for blind people? I can imagine, that when a sighted person sees the whole layout of a page, he / she has an imagination in his / her head what he / she wants to select, delete or replace, and thus a way to express it wia a special language can be very handy. However, blind people don't have this ability, we rather know our current position and drag the selection from it, until we find the ending point, as our view is limited to max. one line at once.So, the question is, is the ability to define operations with a language still that advantageous under these circumstances? On a graphical system, would you use Vim over a traditional editor like Pluma, or something similar with plugins, and if yes why?Best regards Rastislav _______________________________________________ orca-list mailing list orca-list gnome org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/orca-list Orca wiki: https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/Orca Orca documentation: https://help.gnome.org/users/orca/stable/GNOME Universal Access guide: https://help.gnome.org/users/gnome-help/stable/a11y.html_______________________________________________ orca-list mailing list orca-list gnome org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/orca-list Orca wiki: https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/Orca Orca documentation: https://help.gnome.org/users/orca/stable/ GNOME Universal Access guide: https://help.gnome.org/users/gnome-help/stable/a11y.html
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