I would say that emacs and either emacspeak or speakup which I prefer would make a good combination. Emacs also has a sort of a file manager built in which is very nice. You can do everything you want, but read the selection, but once you get used to emacs you can do a lot. Octavian Râsnita <orasnita@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi Trev, > > From: <trev.saunders@xxxxxxxxx> > > Personally I prefer yasr to speakup, and like vim as an editor. vi > > m works well with yasr, and is useable with speakup. > > Well, maybe my espectations are wrong because they are based mostly on > my Linux - cli experience in a SecureCRT console from Windows, but I > was lost each time vi started as a default editor. > > To be more specific, I would like to be able to use an editor that > lets me to use the arrow keys to read the text line by line and word > by word and char by char with up and down arrows, control+left and > right arrows, or simply the left and right arrows, allow me to select > the text using the shift key, selected text that can be read by the > screen reader when I want to, to be able to copy/paste the text from a > program into another with a simple combination of key, execute the > currently open program source code with a specified interpreter that > also offers me the possibility of specifying some parameters, > find/replace using regular expressions with a simple combination of > keys, and very few other things. > > I ask if these are possible, because as I said, when vi was opened in > an SSH console and I tried to use the arrow keys, I used to hear only > some beep sounds, without beeing able to read anything, and instead of > giving combinations of keys for exiting/saving like Control+S, > Control+Q or something like that, I needed to type simple text > commands like ":", which is very strange for a modern editor. > > > I think by far the best option is mutt. > > I guess mutt is accessible under Linux. I have tried a Windows version > that had big accessibility issues. > Is mutt able to create/display html mail messages? > Can it group the messages by conversation? Can we define more folders > and rules for moving the messages automaticly in those folders based > on some conditions? > I guess the answer is yes, but I want to know what I should expect. > > > agreed, bash makes a pretty excellent file manager. > > Well, for some tasks yes. I would be very happy if Windows command > prompt would have the features of bash. But for some tasks a file > manager like Windows Explorer is much better, but it is good if there > is one for Linux also. > > However as I said, my biggest fear remains the text editor. Under > Windows there is no text editor without issues. The best is TextPad, > but it doesn't fully support UTF-8 which is very bad. > I have tried tens of editors under Windows and all of them have > issues, but under Linux I think I don't have so many editors to choose > unfortunately. > > Octavian > > > _______________________________________________ > Blinux-list mailing list > Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici covici@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list