Aquamacs java
Hoping this blabbering was of some usefulness. If you need that-very-useful-to-you-command just use (global-set-key ) or (local-set-key ) – the one that suites most your needings.
#Aquamacs java free#
If a Mac user can’t learn it, sorry, the problem is between chair and keyboard :).Īnd then the mode specific C-c commands, with C-c (letter) left free for user customization.Īnd finally, for the commands that people thinks you don’t use this much are invoked by name. Then there are the extended commands, C-x something, where something could be a simple key or a chord, i.e.C-x s, C-x w, C-x C-c. You can use more modifier at a time: usually Control-key (C-key) works on character scope, Meta-key (M-key)on word scope and Control-Meta-key (C-M-key) on paragraph/function scope. On some keyboards you can also use Super and Hyper. You access them with chords using Control and Meta. Then there are the “most common commands”. The most obvious function is “insert the key I just typed” where expected.
#Aquamacs java windows#
Emacs started ad TECO macro in the ’70 (1975 if I’m not wrong, and it had windows splitting the terminal real espace in areas, hence the “frames” when it comes to graphiic UI, no invented CUA or HIG at that time, Unix tryed to suggest a standard for keybindings, but Emacs was ITS stuff and now is GNU stuff. It mostly depends on what a person is used to.Įmacs Keybinding are ancient. Right at the moment it is in my opinion the best Emacs version for the MacOS out there. I’m really impressed by this project: in fact it’s enought Emacs you want get too confused if you are used to Emacs, but it’s also enought Mac you can use it along your other Mac applications, without having to rethink basic commands (if you don’t want to).
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#Aquamacs java full#
It uses MacOS fonts and locales and unicode characters appear to be handled correctly (not sure for full unicode, for european >7bit characters, it works). Probably a hardcore Emacs user is not going to like this (but probably he will prefer some other more standard version).
#Aquamacs java for mac#
Still you may want (and it is my choice) to allow Command-key to be used for mac key shortcuts, but you want to pass option/alt to the OS (so that you can use and other characters). The more logical choice is to use Command for meta, and leave alt as alt, to enter braces (and on american keyboards accents.). In my opinion if you are going to use Emacs, you expect to find Emacs key bindings. Meta, Apple/Command, Option keys are fully configurable. In fact I found out the flaw was in the user (me) who did not read the wiki. In fact this is a serious design flaw, in my opinion.
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So if you have a not english keyboard, you may not be able to type square brackets, for example. So Aquamacs uses standard Apple bindings. Some of them are pretty standard, readline supports them by default (and so most command line applications do) and Cocoa controls also do (that is to say they work in any text editor.).īut you are never going to convince a Mac user he has to ctrl-x ctrl-s to save or ctrl-x ctrl-c to quit. I told how weird do seem Emacs key bindings on MacOS (in fact they look odd everywhere outside Emacs). I mean, probably if I discovered Aquamacs earlier (the first version I tried long time ago were “new”) I would not have bought it (even if once I was a vi fan - and in fact I still am, for some things).Īnd not because I don’t like TextMate anymore… just because Aquamacs is free and is free software.
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Right now I’m just trying to convince myself that TextMate was worth 39$. In fact I already told Mac Emacs versions do seem to miss something, and this is the reason why I chose to buy TextMate (a cheap 39$ affair). Unfortunately enough this seems to be going to be a “text editor blog”, with BBEdit post, this post and almost finished post about TextMate.