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silentbicycle on March 26, 2010 | parent | context | favorite | on: Am I the Only One Who Uses a Text Editor to Edit F...

Wily (http://www.cse.yorku.ca/~oz/wily/) is a major Unix port. Some quick googling says that it should work on OS X, though you need a three-button mouse for its chording-based interface. Its design is strongly influenced inspired by Oberon (http://ignorethecode.net/blog/2009/04/22/oberon/) (the OS, not the beer).

I find its design very novel, but the mouse-centric UI is a dealbreaker for me. (I went back to Emacs.) If you're already using a Mac, you're probably a bit more forgiving of mice, though.

Flow on March 26, 2010 [–]

That's what people think. But Mac OS X is actually short-cut land. There are loads of short-cuts.

silentbicycle on March 26, 2010 | [–]

Can you use OS X entirely without a mouse?

Flow on March 27, 2010 | | [–]

I don't know. Never tried it.

I'm just very happy common things like closing a window(cmd-w), quitting and app(cmd-q) have sane and comfortable short-cuts compared to Windows.

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