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  1. Tips&Tricks in this Aquamacs Sub-Wiki
  2. Suggestions and ideas
  3. What's Aquamacs?
  4. See Also

Tips&Tricks in this Aquamacs Sub-Wiki

Suggestions and ideas

What's Aquamacs?

Aquamacs (aquamacs.org) is an Aqua-native build of the powerful Emacs text editor. By “Aqua-native,” we mean more than just the fact that this version of Emacs runs as a standard OS X application. Aquamacs features extensive customization that enables it to conform better with Apple’s standard Human Interface Guidelines (HIG) than standard versions of the editor do.

Aquamacs offers a set of nice-looking, antialiased fonts. It displays every file buffer in its own Mac-window (frame) if you want this, and it offers you a range of shortcuts that you’re used to from other applications on the Mac, such as Apple-W to close a window, or Apple-S to save the file. All these come in addition to all the shortcuts you’re used to on Emacs.

You can colorize your windows with Color Themes, and set these along with font settings as defaults for a specific mode. That way you can have different colors when you edit different kinds of files (text files, C++ code, HTML, etc etc.). By the way: you can use AUCTeX with a simple click&run add-on installer.

Aquamacs comes with a nice manual (easy to access via the Apple Help system), and we provide the GNU EmacsManual via the same Help system.

Aquamacs is a cutting-edge Emacs 22 (usually fresh from CVS), patched to contain better Mac-like features and augmented with EmacsLisp-based customization packages. It comes in binary form so it’s dead-easy to install and upgrade, and of course it’s tested for compatibility.

Aquamacs is maintained by DavidReitter. A number of people have contributed.

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