[nfbcs] 2 questions: most accessible text editor/compiler and formatting C++ code
Jim Barbour
jbar at barcore.com
Fri Sep 6 22:35:06 UTC 2013
Carful about the CR/LF problem.
Windows machines terminate lines with a carriage return, line feed
pair of characters. UNIX, including Linux, just uses the line feed characters.
Having lines that end in carriage return/line feed can confuse linux programs.
Jim
On Fri, Sep 06, 2013 at 05:26:11PM -0500, Louis Maher wrote:
> Folks,
>
> If your Linux System Has Samba, then you can handle files with Windows
> Explorer, and edit files with Visual Studio. This works well for Linux.
>
> Regards
> Louis Maher
> 713-444-7838
> ljmaher at swbell.net
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nfbcs [mailto:nfbcs-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Rasmussen, Lloyd
> Sent: Friday, September 06, 2013 1:47 PM
> To: NFB in Computer Science Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [nfbcs] 2 questions: most accessible text editor/compiler and
> formatting C++ code
>
> You might want to look into Ed Sharp, an editor written by Jamal Mazrui,
> which has many functions. I think you can find it at
> www.empowermentzone.com/edsetup.exe
> . If I didn't give the correct address, go to
> www.nonvisualdevelopment.org
> and look around.
>
> Many blind programmers, especially if they are using braille displays, use
> two spaces as the standard indent amount. JAWS and Ed Sharp can announce
> indent levels, and there is also a musical sound scheme for use with JAWS
> for indicating indent level.
>
> I have recently been looking at some log files with the UltraEdit text
> editor. I set Window-Eyes so that, when pressing down-arrow, speech only
> reads from the cursor to the right. By setting the cursor to the correct
> column, I can hear event names, then look at the left side of the braille
> display to see at what time they occurred, if I am curious. There are many
> ways to increase efficiency, but I don't think two braille displays would be
> one of them.
>
> Lloyd Rasmussen, Senior Project Engineer National Library Service for the
> Blind and Physically Handicapped
> Library of Congress 202-707-0535
> http://www.loc.gov/nls
> The preceding opinions are my own and do not necessarily reflect those of
> the Library of Congress, NLS.
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nfbcs [mailto:nfbcs-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Tara Annis
> Sent: Thursday, September 05, 2013 12:00 PM
> To: nfbcs at nfbnet.org
> Subject: [nfbcs] 2 questions: most accessible text editor/compiler and
> formatting C++ code
>
> Hi everyone,
>
> Have you all found a text editor and/or compiler that works well with JAWS.
> I'm currently using VIM that works okay, but I thought there might be
> something more Windows based like Microsoft Visual (think that's the
> name). I've been using notepad and then cut/pasting the code into the
> compiler.
> I don't like having to use the HJKL keys to move up/down in VIM since it
> seems to mess up JAWS. I'm currently writing C++ code, but will be moving
> on to C, JAVA, and PERL.
>
> A second question: when writing C++ code, how do you all format it,
> specifically the blocks of code nested in other blocks? For example, when
> you are writing a series of if else statements. How many spaces do you
> indent this portion of the code? Also, do you indent the opening and
> closing braces or just the code between them? I can explain in more depth
> if needed.
> Any help will be greatly appreciated.
> Tara
>
>
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