Hi everyone.

I have no idea what the status is on the editor in pharo and if there are any plans to do something to / with it. If there's some resource, could you point me to it?

In the meantime I thought I'd share my impressions with you; doesn't hurt at least.

Since I started developing in Pharo I've struggled with the editor, in particular with the fact that I need to use the mouse a lot to position the cursor which, as all of you know, makes development quite a bit slower.

Before I came to Pharo I used to develop in Eclipse and Eclipse supports all shortcuts used inside OS X (and if not you can change the shortcut settings). My favorite shortcuts:

cmd + -> : go to end of line
cmd + <- : go to beginning of line
alt + -> : go to end of the current word
alt + -> : go to beginning of current word
alt + arrow up : switch the line above with the current line (current line has line number -1, line above has line number +1)
alt + arrow down : switch the line below with the current line
cmd + l : delete line (I know this shortcut is used to cancel changes at the moment. Still, I haven't found a shortcut yet that deletes a single line)

I'd LOVE to see this in Pharo, or at least be able to configure the shortcuts myself. I think, being able to change the shortcuts is important anyway because each developer has an own style.

I'd try to come up with a solution myself but I just don't have the time at the moment.

Thanks for listening to my yapping :)

Max