Download Aquamacs 1.0

The Aquamacs Project development team has taken the powerful and all-round word processor Emacs and developed a specific build for Mac OS X. The program has been given the name Aquamacs and has exactly the same functions and possibilities as the original, but the user interface and appearance have been modified according to the Apple Human Interface Guidelines. Aquamacs is a versatile word processor and editor. For example, it can not only be used to write texts, but the program is also capable of displaying practically all programming and markup languages. Aquamacs Project has released the first version of Aquamacs in the form of 1.0a. This version is from this link download and comes with the release notes below:

After more than two years of development, the Aquamacs Project has now released version 1.0, which includes the following features:

• A comprehensive text editing environment, with specialized support for nearly every computer language (C/C++, Python, Ruby, Perl, Java, AppleScript, Lisp, etc.) and text/markup format (HTML, XML, LaTeX, etc.)
• New Mac-style icons, menus and keyboard shortcuts for greater ease-of-use.
• Cursor, mouse and window behavior as is common on the Mac.
• Support for unicode encodings and various, in particular: Asian, input methods.
• Comprehensive user documentation in standard Apple Help format.
• Based on GNU Emacs 22, the latest release of Emacs from the GNU project.

Founded and maintained by the father of Free Software, Richard M. Stallman, GNU Emacs has a long history that began some thirty years ago. He is helped by a team of volunteers, some of which have worked hard to bring Emacs to the Mac. Aquamacs Emacs is a spin-off distribution maintained by David Reitter and his team of enthusiastic users, Mac lovers and Emacs experts.

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. But 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 GNU Emacs with all the ergonomics and extensibility that this world-class editor is famous for.

Aquamacs 1.0 is Free Software and open source. It is a universal binary, supporting both PPC and Intel, and requires Mac OS X 10.3.9 to run. Downloads and more information are available at http://aquamacs.org.[break]

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