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I haven't played with Squeak as much as I want to. Squeak is a world unto itself - Squeak runs within a single native windowing system's window and all its windows within said native frame window are managed by Squeak's Morphic window system. When programming, I'm used to cycling thru windows using alt-tab, whether these are LispWorks' REPL and editor windows, or vim and a shell when programming in Python. I can't do that with Squeak - I find myself using the mouse for windowing operations frequently and it breaks my programming rhythm.

Until I discover SVI. ;-) Since I've set up SVI as the default editor, the Squeak workspace morph is also SVI-enabled. This means I can switch between workspace and browser method panes entirely via keyboard. Not quite alt-tab or vim's ":ls" and ":sb", but close enough.

Next, SUnit. I want to drive Test Runner via keyboard. In workspace,

(tr := TestRunner new) openAsMorph.<alt-s>di

"<alt-s> di" is the "do it" keychord: This pops up a Test Runner window. Next,

tr selectedSuite: 4.<alt-s>di

This selects the Association test suite. Then,

tr runOneTest.<alt-s>di

This runs the selected test suite; the TestRunner GUI updates itself as the tests run.

I envisage subclassing TestRunner with methods to load and invoke my specific test suites only, allowing me to ignore all other test suites that happen to exist within my Squeak world.