Het ontwikkelteam van Aquamacs Project heeft de krachtige en all-round tekstverwerker Emacs onder handen genomen en een specifieke build voor Mac OS X ontwikkeld. Het programma heeft de naam Aquamacs meegekregen en heeft exact dezelfde functies en mogelijkheden als het origineel, maar de gebruikersinterface en het uiterlijk zijn aangepast volgens de Apple Human Interface Guidelines. Aquamacs is een veelzijdige tekstverwerker en -bewerker. Zo kan het niet alleen gebruikt worden om teksten te schrijven, maar is het programma ook in staat om praktisch alle programmeer- en opmaaktalen weer te geven. Aquamacs Project heeft in de vorm van 1.0a de eerste versie van Aquamacs beschikbaar gesteld. Deze versie is vanaf deze link te downloaden en wordt geleverd met de onderstaande release notes:
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 ergonomy 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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