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I really want to try out vim and tiling wm setup. Is this a good place to get my feet wet? I was going to just set up VM of ArchLinux.
by deffibaugh 15y ago
I really want to try out vim and tiling wm setup. Is this a good place to get my feet wet? I was going to just set up VM of ArchLinux.
- ramblex 15y agovim works on mac anyway - macvim for gvim equivalent. As far as I know there aren't any decent tiling wms for mac.
- jarin 15y agoThere are quite a few nice tiling utilities for Mac :) http://www.irradiatedsoftware.com/cinch/ http://www.irradiatedsoftware.com/cinch/ (for mouse) http://www.irradiatedsoftware.com/sizeup/ http://www.irradiatedsoftware.com/sizeup/ (for keyboard) http://autumnapps.com/breeze/ http://autumnapps.com/breeze/ http://mizage.com/divvy/ http://mizage.com/divvy/ (the one I use)
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- johncoltrane 15y agoYou can use dwm/awesome/wmfs & co under XQuartz, installation and configuration work almost like in Linux. That said, I use ShiftIt(1), it's free, keyboard based and does EXACTLY what I want it to do. (1) https://github.com/iamteem/ShiftIt https://github.com/iamteem/ShiftIt
- johncoltrane 15y agoVico is a Mac OS X text editor with Vim-like keybindings. If you want to try tiling window managers + Vim, your best bet is to use MacPort to install gvim and either wmii, awesome or ion3. Other WMs worth trying are wmfs, dwm, xmonad… you'll need manual compiling though.
- navs 15y agoI experimented with an Archbang + wmii setup on my netbook for a few months. I don't see how this app comes close to emulating that experience. I suggest a VM setup.
- deffibaugh 15y agoI think I am going to setup a VM with this. I really want to try the real thing. If it runs well enough in the VM I might just do all my development in and use the host OSX for everyday tasks. I am looking into getting into Android development. Is it worth doing it without using Eclipse?