A bit off topic, but if some OS X users need a
mouse only for Acme, here is a patch to use Acme
without a mouse:
http://codereview.appspot.com/6115053
Once applied, Devdraw's manual (accessible from
the Help menu) will show the following:
On Mac OS X 10.6 or later, the following gestures are avail-
able for trackpad users:
2-finger-pinch to toggle fullscreen,
3-finger-swipe left to cut (cmd+x),
3-finger-swipe right to paste (cmd+v),
3-finger-swipe up to copy (cmd+c),
3-finger-swipe down to exec with arg (2-1 chord),
3-finger-tap to middle-click.
(Equivalent 2-finger swipe gestures are available for Magic
Mouse users.)
Swipe gestures will only be available if the system does not
use them. On OS X 10.7 for example, the default trackpad
configuration must be changed as follows:
swipe between pages with "2 or 3 fingers",
swipe up to Mission Control with 4 fingers.
I use this patch since many months, and I find
Acme even more fun than before. You can apply the
patch this way:
hget http://codereview.appspot.com/download/issue6115053_1.diff >
$HOME/Downloads/swipe.diff
hg -R $PLAN9 import --no-commit $HOME/Downloads/swipe.diff
cd $PLAN9/src/cmd/acme && mk install
cd $PLAN9/src/cmd/devdraw && mk install
If this patch conflicts with "hg pull -u" one day,
you will just have to run the following, to trash
all local changes:
hg -R $PLAN9 update -C
and apply an updated version of the patch.
This patch, that is just a hack, has been refused
at least for the following reasons: it is too
Acme-specific; it can require change to OS X
default conf.
