I never tried AkelPad. Is autocompletion feature accessible on this editor?

Mmm, we don't need understand about encodings to know how to save a
file in UTF-8...
I mean that an user who learn to develop python and add-ons, has
research skills to discover simple things like choose the encoding on
the save file dialog of notepad. I myself learned programming before
understand encodings,I saved my files in UTF-8 because was the
recommendation in the tutoriales that I read. So the recommendation
about unicode should be there.

Regards,
DaVid.

2019-06-11 9:23 GMT-06:00, Brian's Mail list account via Groups.Io
<bglists=blueyonder.co.uk@groups.io>:

What do you think of akelpad?
Brian

bglists@blueyonder.co.uk
Sent via blueyonder.
Please address personal E-mail to:-
briang1@blueyonder.co.uk, putting 'Brian Gaff'
in the display name field.
Newsgroup monitored: alt.comp.blind-users
----- Original Message -----
From: "DaVid" <dhf360@gmail.com>
To: <nvda-addons@nvda-addons.groups.io>
Sent: Tuesday, June 11, 2019 1:07 PM
Subject: Re: [nvda-addons] NVDA Developer Guide: Question about how to make

addons using standard NotePad


If you don't use special characters in your code, you don't need to
save in UTF-8. The default ansi in notepad should work.
But if a user can write an add-on for NVDA, sure s/he is an advanced
user to know how to change coding in notepad.
Notepad is very tedious to write python because it doesn't apply the
last indent. Also it doesn't have auto-completion feature. Programming
on notepad... I don't even wish it on my worst enemy. hehe.
Use notepad++ portable version. And doesn't forget to install
notepad++ add-on to get accessibility for the auto completion feature.

Regards,
DaVid.

2019-06-11 5:10 GMT-06:00, Rui Fontes <rui.fontes@tiflotecnia.com>:

It should be saved as UTF-8.

Rui Fontes


Às 20:41 de 09/06/2019, Daniel Gartmann escreveu:

The last time I played with writing .py files in Notepad, I had to
change
the encoding in the Save dialog. It was not just using the standard
Save
command. Right now, I don’t recall how the file should be encoded in
order
to work properly in NVDA.

Thanks.

Den 9. jun. 2019 kl. 21.14 skrev Luke Davis <luke@newanswertech.com>:

There is nothing really special about a .py file, it is just a text
file
with a different extension (not .txt).

The nice thing about Notepad++, is that it has auto-indentation, and
re-opens last open files, and so on. But other than that, it is editing
in text just like Notepad.

It might also be easier to change character encodings in Notepad++, but

I
haven't really explored that.

So, all of that is to say, there really is no special procedure.
You can open a notepad session, write your code, and save it with a .py
extension. You will have to do your own indenting, but if you're used
to
writing Python that should be no problem.

Any text editor which does not wrap lines should be fine for this.

Luke

On Sun, 9 Jun 2019, Daniel Gartmann wrote:

Hi,

I tried to find information about how to make an add-on using the
built-in Notepad application instead of having to install NotePad++.

The use case is as follows:
You go to another person’s computer to make NVDA behave better for
that
particular user in a specific situation.

Other screenreaders have built-in script editors e.g the JAWS Script
Editor. But when using NVDA, we are told to use NotePad++.

It is, however, not possible to install NotePad++ if, for instance,
you
are in a corporate environment or some other restricted setting.

So. What is the procedure to make a .py file in Notepad and save it in
the correct format?

Could it be included in the NVDA Developer guide?

Just a suggestion so that NVDA’s customizations can be made easier in
more places.

Daniel