![]() Next message (by thread): Stepping Down as Aquamacs Maintainer.Previous message (by thread): error message with Gallina's python-mode.el.Stepping Down as Aquamacs Maintainer David Reitter david. I am retiring as maintainer of Aquamacs Emacs. I am grateful that Aquamacs-contributor Win Treese has agreed to manage the 3.6 release. The Emacs for the Mac An Editor for Text, HTML, LaTeX, C++, Java, Python, R, Perl, Ruby, PHP, and more Aquamacs is a modern editor based on GNU Emacs. I have led the development of the Aquamacs variant of GNU Emacs since around 2004. That's the TLDR, but if you're interested, I'll give you a bit of a historical and personal perspective.Īround 2003, I was fresh out of undergrad and worked, in a research position in Dublin, Ireland, on multimodal interfaces to personal digital assistants: systems that were perhaps a bit too much inspired by linguistic theory and its symbolic manipulations and constraint optimization. Unlike all of the above, it’s not based on GNU Emacs, but has an independent source tree. This beautiful language from the depths of classic AI research wasn't well supported by editors, and the only one that provided some syntax highlighting was Emacs.īack then, my fingers and eyes disagreed with Emacs. Aquamacs is a heavily patched fork of GNU Emacs. This version also includes native support for libxml2 as well as JPEG and SVG images. Several of the bundled Emacs Lisp packages have been updated to more recent versions, most notably AUCTeX. ![]() The Aquamacs app is now fully signed and notarized by Apple. I was used to Mac key bindings and its graphical UI. You get extra variables and options, better integration with system font rendering, smooth pixel scrolling, etc. Aquamacs now prompts for needed permissions. So it wasn’t surprising that a heavily personalized version of Emacs came about rather quickly. ![]() ![]() And just because I could, I made a binary build available for download. To my surprise, it was downloaded a few thousand times overnight. I thought I’d just publish a configuration script. But with the encouragement of author and publisher Kevin Walzer, I built a whole package that we called "Aquamacs”. Kevin wrote the manual and even issued press releases for the project. I admit I got a little carried away with making Emacs work like a Mac program, but the result became - and remains - reasonably popular. ![]()
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