[nfbcs] compiler and formatting

[I. C. Bray]

Tara,

First of all, if your instructor is that anal-retentive, he's in the right 
field!! LOL
As for formatting, without doing some research, I'm not going to be able to 
tell you the perfect editor... I'm used to seeing my code, and I haven't 
done any without sight yet.
I would say, if you could get your tab length set to 3, that works well.
As for the vim commands...
it's been way too long, and I've learned too much grade 2 & nemeth plus JAWS 
keys to remember...  There SHOULD be a help window within VIM.
You cnan always type:
man -k vim
For the manual page-- it may freak JAWS out a bit tho...  Hmmm... now you 
have me curious!  LOL!

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tara Annis" <tannis at afb.net>
To: <nfbcs at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Friday, September 06, 2013 12:55 PM
Subject: [nfbcs] compiler and formatting


: Ian, thanks for the info.  For clarification:  I'm using Windows 7 but  am 
logging into the University's system with Linux  to use VIM.  I don't mind 
logging in to use it, I just don't like how JAWS is reading text for editing 
purposes.  I've also been looking for key commands for cutting code from 
Notepad into VIM. I think it is something like doing the set clipboard = 
unnamed in VIM, then doing the control X in Notepad, then doing a *P or +P 
to paste into VIM.
: If I can find  this key command sequence, I should be fine with VIM.
:
: Formatting: I worried about this because my instructor had stated in all 
the assignments, "do not align all of your code on the left side, or you'll 
receive a 0 for the entire assignment."  So, I wasn't sure what looked good 
visually.  I've been putting the left and right brace on their own lines, 
lined up in the same column, and then writing statements between the braces. 
So, I wasn't sure if I was supposed to put braces on column 1 and ten start 
each line of statement on column 4 or 5?  I can definitely ask the 
instructor, but I asked the list since I thought you all may have specific 
techniques you use with a screen reader to format correctly.
:
: This is my first CS course so I'm still a beginner.
:
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