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- Price: Free
- Operating system: Mac OS X 10.4 PPC/Intel/10.5 PPC/Intel
- Date added: October 28, 2009
- Total Downloads: 136
- Downloads last week: 2
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From David Reitter :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.
What's new in this version:
- Aquamacs is now based on Emacs 23 and the Cocoa (NextStep) port. There are many changes under the hood associated with this. A few functions don't work right just yet, and we recommend neither this preview of Aquamacs 2.0 nor the Emacs 23.1 for mission-critical production use. Please help the Aquamacs team complete the transition by contributing code and fixes or, if that's not possible, a donation. Here, we report the changes between Emacs 22 and Emacs 23 with respect to the Aquamacs d... see all new features
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