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I hope I don't appear insensitive. I promise you it's not my intention. A joke in a movie (name is not important) had a character threatening to punish a person
by hyperliner 12y ago
I hope I don't appear insensitive. I promise you it's not my intention. A joke in a movie (name is not important) had a character threatening to punish a person who was a developer by "cutting his hands."
I started thinking what is the best interface to type when ones hands or fingers are not operational. There are a few things current auto typing software can't do (as they are primarily focused on mass market for word processing in general).
I wonder if some of this software had commands (or can be configured for those commands), for example, for "Next function call" or "Go to end of line" or for example enter syntactical elements into the code (it can get tiring to say "curly bracket" for example). Or things like "Show class methods" -> "Scroll down" -> Select ".print" etc. and then "git" commands, or ... you get the idea.
Probably not a huge market, but a valuable thing for developers.
- morsch 12y agoYou'll enjoy this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWyMA_bT7UI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWyMA_bT7UI The first demo is around the 9 minute mark.
- cmsmith 12y agoSee [1] for what a developer can do when exposed to this exact problem. [1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SkdfdXWYaI#t=558 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SkdfdXWYaI#t=558
- Morgawr 12y agohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qy84TYvXJbk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qy84TYvXJbk Check this one out. The composability of vim commands is probably the best way to embed voice controls for text editing.
- badjointventure 12y agoIf it's only your fingers and/or your wrists that are giving you trouble there's no need for voice recognition; you can type by loosely holding pencils in your hands and pressing keys with the eraser tips. I found this method quite usable.