Emacs changed my life as a fully blind programmer and part-time writer

3 months ago 3

I know the title sounds cliche but that's the truth. Some time ago I asked yall how to configure Emacspeak as even that was difficult. After that I was working hard every day to learn Emacs more and more. I forced myself to use it for my paid job, which, in turn taught me to be extra careful and vigilant. At first even simplest tasks such as moving to beginning of line were difficult. So I searched, asked, made notes (rince and repeat). Thanks to Emacspeak I can code faster in Emacs than in Xcode, even considering the fact I have much more work afterwards to deploy my app to an iPhone than I would have with Xcode, but there's something else that Emacs gives me, something more important than productivity. It gives me joy and excitement for a new day of work, because I know for sure I'll learn one more command, one more trick or a new construct in Elisp. I haven't felt such a joy from using a computer for good 10 years. Emacs is like a good RPG: unforgivable at the beginning, impossible to leave once you learn its rules. Sorry for my broken English. I plan to write a detailed post on how Emacs impacted me as a blind user, what other tools are lacking accessibility-wise, etc.

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