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Aquamacs is a Mac-like distribution of the powerful Emacs text editor. It looks and behaves like a Mac program - even though it's still GNU Emacs with all the extensibility that millions have come to appreciate.
Emacs is a text editor of legendary power and configurability, but it also has an enormously complex interface. Aquamacs tames the Emacs tiger: you get Apple shortcuts (in addition to the Emacs ones), nice fonts, one file per window (if wanted), international input methods, Apple Help manuals and more. Aquamacs comes with a range of modes for various markup and programming languages: HTML, C/C++, Java, Python, Perl, AppleScript, Tcl, XML, R (S)... These modes have extra functions for the languages, including excellent syntax highlighting. You can even use Aquamacs to read news and e-mail, just like any Emacs.
Emacs is a text editor of legendary power and configurability, but it also has an enormously complex interface. Aquamacs tames the Emacs tiger: you get Apple shortcuts (in addition to the Emacs ones), nice fonts, one file per window (if wanted), international input methods, Apple Help manuals and more. Aquamacs comes with a range of modes for various markup and programming languages: HTML, C/C++, Java, Python, Perl, AppleScript, Tcl, XML, R (S)... These modes have extra functions for the languages, including excellent syntax highlighting. You can even use Aquamacs to read news and e-mail, just like any Emacs.
What's new in this version:
sports new features and bugfixes that are still being tested. Please report any bugs only via the "Send Bug Report" function in the Help menu and only to aquamacs-bugs@aquamacs.org. (Please read the FAQ and our Bug Reporting Guidelines before reporting a problem.)
Operating System Requirements:
This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:
- Mac OS X 10.5 Intel
- Mac OS X 10.5 PPC
- Mac OS X 10.4 Intel
- Mac OS X 10.4 PPC
Additional Requirements:
- Mac OS X 10.4 PPC
- Mac OS X 10.3.9
- Mac OS X 10.4 Intel
- Mac OS X 10.0
- Mac OS X 10.1
- Mac OS X 10.5 PPC
- Mac OS X 10.2
- Mac OS X 10.5 Intel
- Mac OS X 10.3
- Mac OS Classic
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Stop the new windows - Version: 1.3rc3, 2/11/2008 12:00AM PST
Tabman--2008
You can stop Aquamacs EMacs from opening a new window for each file by going under the "Options" menu and un-checking the "Display Buffers in Separate Frames" option. After you do that it seems to act like XEmacs. Oh, and one other thing. The auto-completion of filenames is done with the "Tab" key instead of the spacebar.
Essential! 
- Version: 1.0b, 7/22/2007 04:52PM PST
johnk4
I was absolutely shocked not to find a flood of overwhelmingly positive reviews for Aquamacs. For anyone wanting to use emacs to write code on OS X, this is absolutely the emacs to use - it's a no-brainer. It _almost_ has the look-and-feel of a full-on Mac application - the only thing that differs is a little vestigial X-windows behavior (options (eg. fonts) are easier to set than with other emacs, but still don't fit in a standard "Preferences" window). There's a little bit of a learning curve, all because of "will this behave like emacs or like a Mac app?" issues, like whether preferences are stored in ~/.emacs or in ~/Library/Preferences. The last thing I want to have marring my beautiful OS X Aqua interface are applications that look like X-windows (or "hybrid"-looking applications). This thing is really pretty!
too many windows! - Version: 0.9.9c, 4/13/2006 03:34AM PST
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lawrencecpaulson_dotmac
Promising, but its insistence on opening every file in a new window is intolerable. Very soon the screen is completely covered with windows. Very unlike Emacs (or BBEdit), where you work in one window unless you ask for a new one.
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