[BlindMath] instructions needed to set up VS Code

[Jason J.G. White]

On 25/4/24 18:26, Jonathan Godfrey via BlindMath wrote:
> I've seen several suggestions to make use of VS Code, but so far, I
> haven't seen any good advice to help people do the hard part, getting
> set up.

There's an extension for Quarto that you can install, which I assume is 
what you would wish to use for mathematical and statistical work, given 
your excellent presentations on this topic. Ctrl-Shift-X takes you to 
the extension management interface.

Then enable soft word wrap (Alt-Z) for Markdown editing.

For longer documents, you may wish to use code folding, for which there 
are keyboard commands.

I've experimented with VSCode, under Linux primarily, but it isn't my 
text editor for every-day use. In short, I think Emacs and Vim are 
better, especially for efficient keyboard operations while editing.

The next question is whether the Zed editor will prompt a large number 
of people to sift away from VSCode. Zed is absolutely inaccessible to 
screen reader users currently, as it implements its own GPU-accelerated 
GUI widgets, for which accessibility API implementation is an open issue 
on GitHub.