 | Oct 27 2009 |
DAVIDSWELT Note: This is a preview version. We regularly maintain and recommend version 1.9 for mission-critical use. The correct version name of this is "2.0preview3".
(Version 2.0pr3) | |
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 | Jul 9 2009 |
JOSE L BLAS I started coding three years ago and although I had heard of emacs I have never used it. I have tried to learn VI but I found it very hard to learn and not user-friendly at all. When I first started coding on my Mac I was advised to try BBedit, it's not free but it's the best editor I have ever tried. They have a free tuned-down version called TextWrangler and it works very well. I would recommended it to anyone interested in a free text editor for OS X. I paid £25 for a licence of BBEdit and it's probably the best spent of all my software purchases. It's not the best looking software for the mac but it's very stable, fast and has all the features I need as web, software and game developer.
(Version 1.8c) | |
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 | Jul 10 2009 |
CA What about Emacs? Have you tried it?
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| Aug 1 2009 |
MARK EVERITT Although I wouldn't recommend this particular editor, VI and Emacs are both incredibly fast when you learn the key strokes. Of course they aren't easy to learn or user friendly. You're a programmer! Get used to it! You will not find anything faster, but you have to put the effort in. Laziness gets you nowhere. Why are you posting this on the Emacs thread anyway? At least try it first. People generally like Emacs or VI. If you don't like VI then this is probably for you.
(Version 2.0pr1) | |
| Jun 30 2009 |
PENG BAI Good app! I use it for Latex and Python. However, poor at Python, so plug-in needed. I hope Python can be enhanced in this app:) | |
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| Jul 1 2009 |
DAVIDSWELT which plug-in do you use?
(Version 1.8a) | |
| Jul 2 2009 |
PENG BAI python-mode
(Version 1.8a) | |
| Jul 2 2009 |
DAVIDSWELT Actually, Aquamacs already comes with python-mode and all you need to do is We will enable this variant by default for python in future 2.0 series releases. Thanks for your input.
(Version 1.8a) | |
| Jul 5 2009 |
PENG BAI Fabulous!!! It works perfectly. Sorry for that comment. How can I know what you have bundled in this app?
(Version 1.8a) | |
| Jun 22 2009 |
DAVIDSWELT Want to check out our latest work? Download a nightly build of the new 2.0 branch, which is based on Cocoa and Emacs 23. It's far from perfect yet, but already quite usable: http://aquamacs.org/nightlies.shtml
(Version 1.8a) | |
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| Dec 29 2008 |
DAVIDSWELT If you're on a PPC Mac and you downloaded 1.6preview4 on Monday Dec 29, you may encounter a problem with the Finder refusing to run Aquamacs ("not for this architecture"). We've fixed this - just download again. If you're not on PPC, there is no need to download it again.
(Version 1.6pre4) | |
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| Aug 11 2008 |
HOTFREAKS "Kenny's so poor, he has to use Aquamacs instead of TextMate. I hate you, Kenny."
(Version 1.5rc2) | |
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| Dec 21 2008 |
GAVIN CUTSHALL Well, you got some frownies, but I think this is hilarious.
(Version 1.6pre2) | |
| Dec 29 2008 |
DAVIDSWELT I find it hilarious, too :)
(Version 1.6pre4) | |
| Jun 18 2009 |
ZEBA :) that's the spirit ppl
(Version 1.8) | |
 | Jul 29 2008 |
PIXIEMOTION Aquamacs has become a really mature Emacs for OS X; the balance between Mac usability and Emacs power is near-perfect. If you've never used any Emacs before, this is the best way to get to know it. If you have used Emacs before, this is the best Mac distribution.
(Version 1.5rc1) | |
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| Jun 19 2008 |
MRGANDO This is a great piece of software, the Apple Scientific and some of the developer communities will make great use of this software. | |
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| Jun 19 2008 |
MRGANDO This is a great piece of software, the Apple Scientific and some of the developer communities will make great use of this software. | |
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| Sep 27 2006 |
JOHN NOWAK First off: No, it is not a beautiful Cocoa editor. It isn't supposed to be. It is supposed to be a Mac version of emacs that doesn't require X11 and integrates a bit better with the system -- And it does that. Very solid documentation, good stability, lots of included packages, good concept, and a wonderful implementation.
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| May 9 2006 |
IFX It is very disappointing to hear negative comments about this gem of software, just because of a couple of icons that are not in the taste of some readers. Apparently there is a deep ignorance in part of the current Mac community about Free Software. Apparently there is also deep ignorance about the outstanding contributions of Richard Stallman and his beautiful creature, Emacs. Maybe this is due to the massive Apple campain to have win users to switch, which will eventually poison the community. But what I would like is that people think and get documented before commenting. Emacs and VI have been the only two free, powerful, programmable and customizable text editors for ages. Platform independent. If someone does not understand programming languages and lisp, then she better avoid commenting about Emacs. If someone writes documents in M$ Word and similar crap editors, because he does not know how to use LaTeX, then he better stay silent about Emacs. I've been using Emacs for 15 years over several Unix platforms and it never (yes, never) let me down with a lost file because of a crash. Aquamacs, in particular, is the best possible incarnation of Emacs in MacOs. If someone needs some silly aqua-fresh look then she better use TextEdit or buy herself some expensive license. He probably cannot even tell the difference between TextEdit and a programmable editor.
(Version 0.9.9c) | |
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| Dec 12 2006 |
MDMUNOZ Wow. Let me say this: contrary to what you imply, there are other (read: not emacs) open-source editors for the mac that integrate completely into the os, follow human interface guidelines, and aren't bloated with 30 megs of crap. Emacs can do lots of neat things, but it's clunky and unusable for a lot of people. Alluding to some sort of windows-switcher ignorance or love of eye-candy won't save you from the reality that emacs is bloated and anachronistic. Most people want to actually edit text in a way that is intuitive, simple, and plays nice with their operating system. if you want to spend all day writing lisp hacks so you can attempt to finally create that Photoshop emacs extension that has so long kept it from being its own operating system, more power to you. But that's no reason to whine about the "ignorace" of the Mac community.
(Version 0.9.9d) | |
| Jun 19 2008 |
MRGANDO I use TextMate for my editing, please point me to other "Free Open Source full Aqua appearance" OS X editors ( for programming of course , or laTex ). This is a great piece of software, I say so even if I haven't used emacs at all ever ( I always used VI ).
(Version 1.4) | |
| Oct 31 2008 |
JJL Aquamacs is now a lovely size 134.4 MB in its .app directory, somewhat voluptuous compared to twiggy TextMate's 29.9 MB. However, they both zip along gracefully on two cores clocking 2.3 GHz. A twenty-year marriage to emacs can't be without some nostalgia and a quiet reverence for the many occasions emacs has saved my life, my ambitions, or, at minimum, my sanity, on no fewer than a dozen distinct operating environments. Aquamacs 1.5, in D. Reitter's caring and thoughtful hands, shines in its elegant, talented demonstrations of refined, tested, experienced design. In OS 10.5.5, I do prefer TextMate to any other among its peers. It is a young code-base, but plainly brilliant and prodigious. It has the great advantage of having lived it's most formative years contemporaneous with OS X, and this shows in its resilience and creativity with the networked, many-tiered problems that have come to fore in modern times. Frankly, I adore them both.
(Version 1.5) | |
| Nov 20 2005 |
ANONYMOUS Not an Aqua app. Period.
(Version 0.9.7) | |
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| Nov 20 2005 |
ANONYMOUS That's the point, period. It's Emacs
(Version 0.9.7) | |
| Nov 21 2005 |
ANONYMOUS ... getting more and more Aqua with every new version!
(Version 0.9.7) | |
| Nov 20 2005 |
CHIPSTER Absolutely fanstastic. Thanks. Even from this old Vim fanatic, this app is highly recommended.
(Version 0.9.7) | |
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| Sep 20 2005 |
NORMAND MOUSSEAU I am so glad to have at least an Emacs version well integrated into Mac. I had been waiting for this since Os 10.0 Good work!
(Version 0.9.5b) | |
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| Sep 1 2005 |
WACKYMACS This sucks badly, it is named "aquamacs Emacs" yet it uses icons from the Gnome interface of Linux. Large download size too, for an editor.
(Version 0.9.5b) | |
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| Sep 3 2005 |
ANONYMOUS That's bullshit. The icon may have been adopted by Gnome, but it wasn't even made exclusively for Gnome. A 33 MB download is not too bad considered that it's a complete Emacs, plus modifications, add-ons and manuals. You don't seem to know what you're talking about.
(Version 0.9.5b) | |
| Nov 20 2005 |
THE VALRUS Yeah: "large download size for any editor other than Emacs" is more like it.
(Version 0.9.7) | |
| Sep 1 2005 |
ANONYMOUS Any chance of getting rid of those crappy Gnome icons -- is this a Mac application, or a Linux application?
(Version 0.9.5b) | |
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| Sep 3 2005 |
DAVID REITTER Yeah, send us a better one!
(Version 0.9.5b) | |
| Sep 28 2005 |
ANONYMOUS Heh, heh... Good response. It is so irritating to developers when someone complains about your free product without offering a solution themselves. The developer gives you this for free. Putting his/her own time and intelligence into it for you. Either submit better icons yourself, arrange for better ones to be created or, at the very least, point out something that looks better.
(Version 0.9.6) | |
| Oct 14 2007 |
ZANGIEF For that matter, some of the Nuvola or Crystal icons might be good.
(Version 1.2a) | |
| Aug 29 2005 |
ANONYMOUS Spinning beach-ball of death for quite a while on first launch. I was setting up to write a "Troubleshooting" comment here on MacUpdate when it finally popped up in the background. Subsequent launches are very speedy, so I'm not sure what the deal was... 10.3.9 on a dual 1.8GHz G5 w/ 1GB RAM
(Version 0.9.5) | |
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| Aug 23 2005 |
DAVID REITTER We have a beta version available from our website: http://aquamacs.org/download.shtml
(Version 0.9.4) | |
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 | Jun 7 2005 |
ANONYMOUS Location is broken. Download from: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=138078
(Version 0.9.1) | |
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| May 27 2005 |
ANONYMOUS best emacs for osx, but it's still too slow for me to stand.
(Version 0.9.1) | |
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| May 8 2005 |
ANONYMOUS When I download it says the file is not mountable? Any suggestion. | |
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| May 9 2005 |
DAVID REITTER there was a problem with the 0.9.1 download off SourceForge that persisted for a couple of hours. This has been fixed now - follow the link from here and you'll get the right file. Or, try our current beta version, available from http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=138078
(Version 0.9.1) | |
| May 6 2005 |
EMACS REVIEW SERVICE This seems to be a Mac like implementation of Emacs. You can use standard key shortcuts (like Cmd-Q etc.) now. It seems it doesn't sets type/creator correctly. A .ml file saved with Emacs is opened with AlphaX on double clicking. I know, AlphaX is a much better editor and thus this behavior seems quite useful, but for some reason I need Emacs for some files and I want them to open with Emacs.
(Version 0.9.1) | |
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| Jun 11 2005 |
DAVID REITTER Thanks "Emacs Review Service" for the hint. The upcoming new version 0.9.3 will automatically set the creator code now.
(Version 0.9.1) | |
| Apr 7 2005 |
ANONYMOUS It installed without any bother. It feels a lot snappier than the Carbon Emacs I've been using. The only annoying thing are the 'usability' features that have been added. It should *not* open a new frame every time. I don't know how to stop it yet - it's just plain annoying. Likewise, the file completion popup window is ugly, I prefer the default inline one. So my only wish is that it behaved more like the 'default' emacs distribution - of course, there are probably ways around this. Oh, and there is only one thing preventing me from using it. That damn ugly icon of an ugly horse that they have. It ruins my desktop.
(Version 0.9) | |
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| Apr 8 2005 |
DAVID REITTER It's a gnu, not a horse! We'll see what we can do about configuration in the next version.
(Version 0.9) | |
| May 6 2005 |
ANONYMOUS it looks like a sissy gnu. can't it look more manly like the old one?
(Version 0.9.1) | |
| May 27 2005 |
MIHXIL I think you have to add somethin like this: (setq one-buffer-one-frame nil) to .emacs, to get rid of those annoying frames. After for me too, it overall seems to be the best emacs for osx I could find. Though I still have several complaints..
(Version 0.9.1) | |
| Apr 4 2005 |
I have been trying to get this running on OS X with no success.
(Version 0.9) | |
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| Apr 4 2005 |
ANONYMOUS Just double-click on it and it will run.
(Version 0.9) | |
| Apr 4 2005 |
VADOR I confirm, it seems to work perfectly.
(Version 0.9) | |
| Apr 4 2005 |
ANONYMOUS doesn't work here; just jumps once in the dock and exits
(Version 0.9) | |
| Apr 5 2005 |
ANONYMOUS I tried to download and run it and had the same problem initially The problem was that I didn't give Expander enough time to unzip all the package contents, and moved the application before all the necessary files were unpacked. Try unzipping the .tgz from the command line - then you'll see when it is done.
(Version 0.9) | |
| Apr 8 2005 |
DAVID REITTER There might be a problem on some OS X 10.4 builds. Please try the next version that'll come out within a month.
(Version 0.9) | |
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