Aquamacs Emacs

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• It's getting better with every update

  Edwin-schemerJune 21, 2009

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  This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />A highly recommendable Mac implementation of Emacs. Even RMS would approve of it now ;-)

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• Essential!

  johnk4July 22, 2007

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  This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />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!

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• I'm not an emacs person, but...

  wgscottDecember 21, 2005

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  This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />. This is impressive. I've been using SubEthaEdit, which is closed-source, free to non-commercial users, but restrictive. I use vim for most of my "power" editing, but like a nice aqua gui editor when I am trying to grok a document. The first thing that really impressed me was that cut/paste works the X11 way as well as the aqua way. Not being able to select to copy and middle-click to paste is one of the main shortcomings of the aqua environment, so I was very pleased to see aqua-emacs allows me to do this. I may have to stop hating emacs...

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• Fantastic

  werenotinkansasanymoreDecember 21, 2005

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  This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />Finally an Emacs that isn't weird. Definitely the nicest Emacs implementation on the Mac.

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• Seems much improved

  Tim McNamaraNovember 20, 2005

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  This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />I've used Aquamacs Emacs off and on. Previous versions did not seem anywhere near as useable as Carbon builds of GNU/Emacs or buulds under under X11. This version has made a big step. In particular, it seems as though standard Emacs keybindings can be reliably used as well as many Mac-standard command keys. That goes a long way toward making Emacs much more accessible to OS X users and non-frustrating for experienced Emacs users. My experimentation with t 0.9.7 version thus far indicated that the application is stable under OS X 10.3.9. I wonder if this will ever be migrated into the standard source code for Emacs? One note for users of a Carbon Emacs build, you may need to check the release notes for 0.9.7 re: (setq mac-command-key-is-meta) in your .emacs.

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• Best Editor for OSX

  vt71September 29, 2005

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  This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />I've been using Aquamacs since it first came out, and with every new version it gets better. There's no better editor for OSX, especially if you use LaTeX. Aquamacs now comes with Auctex, so there's absolutely no hassle there. Aquamacs supports both the traditional Emacs keyboard shortcuts as well as the standard Mac keyboard shortcuts. This is a big plus, if you're either also working on Unix machines, or if you're new to Emacs.

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• Getting better!

  lp15May 13, 2005

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  This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />The differences between 0.9 and 0.9.1 are very impressive. Some advanced packages still don't work, but all of the basics are there, and the integration with Aqua makes it nicer than the Carbon ports.

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• Decent implementation, but I still like...

  Edwin-schemerApril 4, 2005

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  ...xemacs-21.4.7<br />This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />I have tried this only briefly, but first impressions matter ... Almost everything works (I tried auctex, mh-mail, dired, ispell) and most of the packages work (Ispell has some problems). However, it does not load bbdb.elc, and what is really annoying is that every buffer opens in a new frame. The black-on-white is also tiring for old eyes which are uesd to the healthier green-on-black of yore. I can recommend compiling xemacs-21-4.17 which works beautifully under X11, provided you also install all the latest packages. It is slower to start than this AquaEmacs but feels like a comfortable old shoe to us old emacs-hackers. I can recomend it for people who don't have X11 installed and find the emacs in terminal too hard to use.

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• Libncurses version skew

  deemeryAugust 7, 2004

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  This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />When I launch emacs, I get the following error message: <p> dyld: /Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/Emacs version mismatch for library: /usr/lib/libncurses.5.dylib (compatibility version of user: 6.0.0 greater than library's version: 5.0.0) Trace/BPT trap <p> This on a machine running X.3.4 and the latest XCode release. We need to get some sort of fix for this problem. Once this is fixed (so it'll run), the big thing I want to see is if this program supports cut-and-paste across apps. <p> dave

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