Overview
What is Wily?
A simple, powerful, mouse-based text environment
In depth
A closer look at Wily
Wily is an emulation for Unix and X of Acme which only works in the Plan 9 environment. Acme was inspired chiefly by Oberon. Interact in a general way with text on the screen using a mouse. Instead of menus or con- trol keys, clicking on text with the middle mouse button "goes to" a file, directory, string or regular expression. Wily was written by programmers 4 programmers: there are very few rules and even fewer excep- tions. The learning curve is steep but short, and very few people have used wily for a few hours and gone back to another editor.
Verdict
Should you download Wily?
Wily runs on
Linux
and is available under the
Not Specified
license
— the installer is 0 KB.
We’ve catalogued it under
Editor.
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At a glance
Wily specifications
- Last updated
- Feb 16, 2025
- License
- Not Specified
- Operating system
- Linux
- File size
- 0 KB
- Price
- Free
- Page views
- 537
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