A surprising number of features exist in OSX to make it comfortable for people used to Unix-like OSes. It's a shame Apple is so poorly behaved, I'd think about buying a personal mac if it weren't for that.
Their terminal app will simulate a selection buffer for you (although it doesn't integrate with other apps which is why I end up pasting garbage into my terminal almost every time I clone something from github) and can optionally simulate pointer style focus like many X11 window managers do.
Every text widget in Cocoa seems to use Emacs-style GNU readline shortcuts. Something I didn't notice until recently.
Xquartz isn't dead, and interestingly Xlib has outlasted quickdraw and carbon, their own drawing APIs.
There are clearly a couple of people who really care about this internally and push to let it keep these features. I hope that the day when they are drowned out by the rest of the company does not come…
Their terminal app will simulate a selection buffer for you (although it doesn't integrate with other apps which is why I end up pasting garbage into my terminal almost every time I clone something from github) and can optionally simulate pointer style focus like many X11 window managers do.
Every text widget in Cocoa seems to use Emacs-style GNU readline shortcuts. Something I didn't notice until recently.
Xquartz isn't dead, and interestingly Xlib has outlasted quickdraw and carbon, their own drawing APIs.