[Pythonmac-SIG] Aquamacs

[Charles Hartman]

Forgot to thank you for this run-down. Thanks! I guess it depends --  
like too much else -- on what I want.

Charles Hartman

On Jun 15, 2005, at 10:44 PM, Kevin Walzer wrote:

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> Charles,
>
> There are indeed various versions of Emacs out there for OS X. You  
> can't
> tell the players without a scorecard. Here's the rundown, based on
> what's available at
> http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/unix_open_source/ and elsewhere:
>
> Carbon Emacs Package June '05: As far as I can tell, a well-maintained
> build of Emacs from CVS, with the standard Emacs interface. It  
> seems to
> be released fairly regularly.
>
> Emacs-on-Aqua: This is a Cocoa binding of Emacs, derived from the old
> NeXT port of Emacs. It has a nice Aqua look and feel (unlike standard
> Carbon Emacs). Its main drawback is that it's more than a full version
> behind current Emacs (20.x, not 22.x). Development on it has just  
> begun
> again after being dormant for a couple of years (i.e. it was last
> released for Jaguar).
>
> Yaced (Yet Another Carbon Emacs Distribution, at
> http://yaced.sourceforge.net): Pretty similar to Carbon Emacs Package
> above, with some customizations geared to making it a good editing
> environment for LaTeX. The maintainer, Norm Gall, also packages  
> AucTeX.
>
> Aquamacs, which I'm working on with David Reitter: This is a more
> radical revision of Emacs: it overrides a lot of the standard Emacs
> interface conventions, keyboard shortcuts, etc. and replaces them with
> standard Aqua keymappings. i.e., Apple-C is the preferred method to  
> copy
> text. This is based on Carbon Emacs. I like the approach that Aquamacs
> uses because I no longer have to choose between Emacs' power and
> BBEdit/Textwrangler's ease of use.  If you prefer standard Emacs,
> Aquamacs will probably drive you crazy.
>
> There are probably other builds that I'm not aware of, but these  
> are the
> ones that seem to be most popular.
>
> Let me know if you have other questions.
>
> - --
> Cheers,
>
> Kevin Walzer, PhD
> WordTech Software--Open Source Applications and Packages for OS X
> http://www.wordtech-software.com
> http://www.kevin-walzer.com
> http://www.smallbizmac.com.
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