Its modernization of emacs, has priority with Mac's way of operation than emacs way.Īquamacs is only a Mac application. Using the menu 〖Help ▸ Aquamacs Help〗 launches Apple's proprietary GUI-based help application.Īquamacs makes emacs palpable for Mac users, but in many ways, Aquamacs imposes a major change of operation for people already familiar with emacs. Emacs info files 【F1 i】 is opened in a new window. “shell-command” is opened in a new window. For example, besides changing the many shortcuts, Aquamacs open each file in a new window (i.e. This would not help Microsoft Word the software itself or its image perceived by the populace, and is likely to complicate the issue around Microsoft Word.Īlso, Aquamacs changes emacs to conform to Apple's user interface guidelines as much as possible. Suppose Microsoft hired a third party to release a variant called MS AquaWord. However, a third-party variant software does not change the fact that GNU emacs itself needs to be modernized.įor example, suppose Microsoft Word remained with its DOS era interface, for example, file is opened with Esc (to open the menus), t (for Transfer), l (for Load).
Īs a emacs variant, it does help in spreading the idea that emacs user interface should be modernized. For more info, see: Wikipedia Aquamacs and Aquamac's home page at. By following a modern user interface, almost all points mentioned in this article are fixed in Aquamacs. It opens each file/buffer in a new window. Undo is 【⌘ Cmd+z】, and there is a redo command by default, with shortcut 【⌘ Cmd+⇧ Shift+z】.
Open file is 【⌘ Cmd+o】, saving is 【⌘ Cmd+s】, save-as is 【⌘ Cmd+⇧ Shift+s】. Aquamacs modifies emacs so that its user interface follows modern (Mac OS X) conventions. Q: Aquamacs already has the modernization you speak of.Īquamacs is a emacs variant based on GNU Emacs, for Apple's Macintosh computers, created in about 2004 by David Reitter. Modernization of Emacs (Simple Changes Emacs Should Adopt)
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