[OS X Emacs] Aquamacs Emacs 1.6 released
David Reitter
david.reitter at gmail.com
Tue Jan 13 09:14:26 EST 2009
Text and Code Editor Aquamacs Emacs 1.6 Released
The Aquamacs Project is proud to announce the release of Aquamacs
Emacs 1.6, the leading Mac-friendly variant of the widely-used editor
Emacs. It is a versatile, fast and mature editor for source code, web
pages, typesetting documents and all other forms of text. Emacs is a
text editor of legendary flexibility and has made millions of
programmers and writers very productive. Numerous packages allow users
to extend its functionality.
Aquamacs is adapted to the Mac's "Aqua" user interface. That means
more than just the fact that this version of Emacs runs as a standard
OS X application. Earlier versions of Emacs also had an enormously
complex user interface. That is different in Aquamacs, which behaves
the way Mac users expect. Aquamacs looks good and integrates well with
other applications on the Mac. Normal OS X keyboard commands are
offered along with the extended Emacs ones. No complicated
installation is needed. Yet it's still a real Emacs with all the
ergonomy and extensibility that this world-class editor is famous for.
Aquamacs Emacs 1.6 includes the following improvements:
* Tabs are now on by default in new installations.
* Colors and fonts for different editing modes are now easier to
customize.
* Word wrap now conforms to standard Mac conventions.
* Additional and updated editing modes (Wikipedia, Python, etc.).
* Can now open files directly from Terminal.
* Improved zoom and full-screen editing function.
* Additional bug fixes and feature enhancements.
The full list of changes is available at http://aquamacs.org/download.shtml#changelog
Founded by the father of Free Software, Richard M. Stallman, Emacs has
a long history that began some thirty years ago. Emacs has now a
thriving community of volunteer developers. Aquamacs includes the
latest GNU Emacs and is maintained by David Reitter and his team of
enthusiastic users, Mac lovers and Emacs experts.
Aquamacs is Free Software and open-source. It is a universal binary,
supporting both PPC and Intel, and requires Mac OS X 10.4 or newer to
run. Downloads and more information are available at http://
aquamacs.org.
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