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A keyboard based IDE for a keyboard based GUI for PCs. Common PC GUIs are WIMP based (Windows, Icons, Menus, Pointers). They require the usage of a mouse and are pretty complicated. I find the usage of the mouse in a PC GUI "unnatural". So I set out designing a keyboard-input only based GUI. It turned out, that wasn't as difficult as I initially thought. Then I started writing an IDE for designing apps using this new GUI approach. I call it EngageUI, since it is user activity based. https://github.com/Rohit-Agarwal-Khitchdee/EngageUI/


I feel like if you advertise this to the various "Mechanical Keyboard" communities they'd lose their shit in a positive way. r/mechanicalkeyboard is a main public one


Thanks. I'll try that.


Well, Emacs already did it. I kinda hate after moving to IDEA (as IDE it's just better, still prefer Emacs as an editor tho) I had to use mouse more.


Emacs is a great editor if you don't want to have to use the mouse and once you get familiar with its command set. What I'm working on is creating a keyboard-input only GUI SDK that enables you to build something like Emacs easily.




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