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Mac emacs vs aquamacs8/22/2023 Next message (by thread): Stepping Down as Aquamacs Maintainer.Previous message (by thread): error message with Gallina's python-mode.el.Stepping Down as Aquamacs Maintainer David Reitter david. Aquamacs-specific addons and configuration in Lisp code Bundled packages from elsewhere (e.g, AUCTeX, ESS) Aquamacs changes to base Emacs Lisp code Aquamacs changes to base Emacs C/Objective C code Other changes around the edges (documentation, auxiliary files, etc.) I treese added this to the 4. I am retiring as maintainer of Aquamacs Emacs. I am grateful that Aquamacs-contributor Win Treese has agreed to manage the 3.6 release. I have led the development of the Aquamacs variant of GNU Emacs since around 2004. That's the TLDR, but if you're interested, I'll give you a bit of a historical and personal perspective.Īround 2003, I was fresh out of undergrad and worked, in a research position in Dublin, Ireland, on multimodal interfaces to personal digital assistants: systems that were perhaps a bit too much inspired by linguistic theory and its symbolic manipulations and constraint optimization. This beautiful language from the depths of classic AI research wasn't well supported by editors, and the only one that provided some syntax highlighting was Emacs.īack then, my fingers and eyes disagreed with Emacs. I was used to Mac key bindings and its graphical UI. Its modernization of emacs, has priority with Macs way of operation than emacs way. So it wasn’t surprising that a heavily personalized version of Emacs came about rather quickly. Aquamacs makes emacs palpable for Mac users, but in many ways, Aquamacs imposes a major change of operation for people already familiar with emacs. And just because I could, I made a binary build available for download. To my surprise, it was downloaded a few thousand times overnight. Aquamacs has a standard Mac menu with entries where you would expect them, and recently used files are available from the File menu. I thought I’d just publish a configuration script. But with the encouragement of author and publisher Kevin Walzer, I built a whole package that we called "Aquamacs”. Kevin wrote the manual and even issued press releases for the project. I admit I got a little carried away with making Emacs work like a Mac program, but the result became - and remains - reasonably popular.
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