Why use Aquamacs instead of a raw GNU Emacs?
Why use Aquamacs instead of the a stock Carbon or X11 Emacs on the Mac? Here are some features that Aquamacs has to offer on top of all the advantages that come with Emacs: • Fonts just work, right from the menu: The Mac-standard font (Lucida Grande) is the default for editing text, and the mono-spaced Monaco is used to other modes. These fonts are nicely rendered with antialiasing. Aquamacs offers a range of proportional and mono-spaced fonts to choose from. • Aquamacs has a standard Mac menu with entries where you would expect them, and recently used files are available from the File menu. • Aquamacs gives you all the standard Mac shortcuts like Apple-S, Apple-C, Apple-V – everything that you’re used to in addition to the fast, traditional Emacs key bindings. • Aquamacs can organize the files that you’re editing in tabs. This preserves screen space but allows you to keep track of all those open files easily. You’ve probably seen the tabs in Safari, Firefox or the OS X Terminal progra
