[Pythonmac-SIG] ANN: AquaMacs distribution of Emacs

[konrad.hinsen at laposte.net]

On 07.04.2005, at 18:35, Kevin Walzer wrote:

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> In case anyone is interested, David Reitter and I are working on  a
> distribution of Carbon Emacs that includes a lot of Aqua-specific
> customizations (keyboard shortcuts, use of native file dialogs, etc.) 
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> make Emacs more HIG-compliant.
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> http://www.wordtech-software.com/aquamacs.html

This looked promising, so I tested it - for about five minutes. This 
beast is less ergonomic than standard Emacs and less ergonomic than any 
standard Mac text editor - who wants that? Unless of course I have 
overlooked something essential...

1) No more than one buffer per window. I tend to have about twenty 
buffers in an Emacs session. Twenty windows? Not on my iBook! And.. 
having two files on top of each other in one window is often very 
useful. It's one of the reasons why I still use Emacs.

2) File completion with the pop-up dialog is a lot worse than no file 
completion at all. The idea of Emacs-style (and readline-style) file 
completion is that one can always type one more letter to reduce the 
number of choices. No more with that silly dialog box.

3) Python-mode seems to work only partially. In particular, py-shell 
doesn't work. No more Python debugging in Emacs...

Oh well... it's in the trashcan, life goes on as usual :-)

Konrad.