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Is there a port of Acme to OS X? Or are there any similar editors?

• silentbicycle 17y ago
  Wily (http://www.cse.yorku.ca/~oz/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/ 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 17y ago
    That's what people think. But Mac OS X is actually short-cut land. There are loads of short-cuts.
    • silentbicycle 17y ago
      Can you use OS X entirely without a mouse?
      • Flow 17y ago
        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.
• jff 17y ago
  Ignore the reference to Wily in the other post; that is an ancient and crappy copy. Plan9Port http://swtch.com/plan9port/ http://swtch.com/plan9port/ has Acme, along with many other useful Plan 9 tools. Acme-SAC http://www.caerwyn.com/acme/ http://www.caerwyn.com/acme/ is a standalone bundle of the Inferno version of Acme. Both will run on OS X, both are basically the same. I use Plan9Port.