[NFBCS] Command Line Editors

[Greg Kearney]

If you have a Mac you can use either the Terminal program, which is included or CodeRunner, which is commercial but which works very well with VoiceOver as well. MacOS is a UNIX variant under the hood and so will be much closer to the native Linux environment than Windows will be. Most of the Linux commands ls, rm, pwd and so on run the same on a Mac.

If you are writing shell programs which you will then run I would suggest CodeRunner as it is very useful for this kind of application. CodeRunner also works will all kinds of other programming languages such as Perl, Python, and JavanScript as well. It's a great program for this kind of work.

Greg




> On Jan 1, 2020, at 2:45 PM, Haoran Wen via NFBCS <nfbcs at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> Sorry for not being specific on my original email.
> I have a mac and windows pc and will SSH into the linux machines remotely.
> So I can use voiceover with the terminal applicaiton on macs and am
> planning on using windows subsytem for linus on my PC.
> 
> I have not used NVDA before but will try it out to see if that works better
> than JAWS.
> 
> Thanks everyone for your help.
> Haoran
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Wed, Jan 1, 2020 at 2:25 PM Nicole Torcolini via NFBCS <nfbcs at nfbnet.org>
> wrote:
> 
>> What screen reader? Any chance that you could mount the remote file system
>> to Windows and use a Windows program?
>>        From my experience, JAWS does not work well with commandline. It
>> often reads the wrong character/line, and most of the JAWS navigation
>> commands, especially navigate by word, do not work--you end up writing some
>> weird character. I have also found that I have to use a Braille display to
>> really know what I am doing.
>>        I do not know if NVDA works any better.
>>        Oh, and make sure that you use headphones when typing passwords as
>> JAWS speaks passwords characters in the commandline, even though they are
>> not shown on the screen.
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: NFBCS [mailto:nfbcs-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Jack Heim via
>> NFBCS
>> Sent: Wednesday, January 01, 2020 9:32 AM
>> To: NFB in Computer Science Mailing List
>> Cc: Jack Heim
>> Subject: Re: [NFBCS] Command Line Editors
>> 
>> Systems programming for which system?  I am going to guess linux. If so,
>> I do all my systems programming in gedit.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On 12/31/19 9:21 PM, Haoran Wen via NFBCS wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> I will be taking a system programming course next semester and will be
>>> working in the command line a lot. So I am wondering are there any
>>> recommendations for command line editors that works well with screen
>>> readers?
>>> 
>>> Thanks in advance,
>>> Haoran
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