Aquamacs 2.0 Released

Perhaps it's tabbar-mode but for some reason I find Aquamacs to be crazy-slow when compared to the vanilla Emacs.app. I realise there's a lot of extras that are included in Aquamacs but the difference is just insane. It's a shame though because I love the default setup (after I've turned off all of their modifier key changes).

Re: Aquamacs 2.0 Released

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Post by amichail » Mon, May 10, 2010, 5:30 PM UTC

IMO, the best free text editor for the mac is jEdit.

Re: Aquamacs 2.0 Released

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Post by mark_l_watson » Mon, May 10, 2010, 5:46 PM UTC

I just installed it and I installed the Mac 23.2 build a few days ago. Aquamacs is nice because just about everything (e.g., latext support) is bundled in. The plain 23.2 build starts faster and seems lighter. I alias 'Emacs' to start the new 23.2 plain app, 'aquamacs' to start Aquamacs, and can run the default emacs install with 'emacs'. Nice to have all three depending on what I am working on.

Re: Aquamacs 2.0 Released

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Post by jcromartie » Mon, May 10, 2010, 7:11 PM UTC

I love Aquamacs, but man... FOSS projects sure have a hell of a time with good (visual) design.

Re: Aquamacs 2.0 Released

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Post by jz » Mon, May 10, 2010, 7:33 PM UTC

weeksie wrote: post #4

Perhaps it's tabbar-mode but for some reason I find Aquamacs to be crazy-slow when compared to the vanilla Emacs.app. I realise there's a lot of extras that are included in Aquamacs but the difference is just insane. It's a shame though because I love the default setup (after I've turned off all of their modifier key changes).

This has been my experience too. I'm downloading now to see if performance has improved.

Re: Aquamacs 2.0 Released

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Post by itistoday » Mon, May 10, 2010, 7:36 PM UTC

I spent a while today trying to decide what I like better, Cocoa Emacs or Aquamacs, and I eventually decided upon Aquamacs.

I found that Cocoa Emacs is faster to setup and get running, but once you have Aquamacs behaving the way you want it the extra features really are worth it. For me, tab support and the ability to re-open windows & frames from the last session seals the deal.

One oddity that I struggled at first with was how to get it to load ~/.emacs.d/init.el. I eventually solved this by loading it from: ~/Library/Preferences/Aquamacs Emacs/Preferences.el

Re: Aquamacs 2.0 Released

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Post by tjpick » Mon, May 10, 2010, 9:05 PM UTC

itistoday wrote: post #9

I spent a while today trying to decide what I like better, Cocoa Emacs or Aquamacs, and I eventually decided upon Aquamacs. I found that Cocoa Emacs is faster to setup and get running, but once you have Aquamacs behaving the way you want it the extra features really are worth it. For me, tab support and the ability to re-open windows & frames from the last session seals the deal. One oddity that I struggled at first…

the thing that made me switch from aquamacs to cocoa emacs was that cocoa emacs acts more like the emacs on other platforms (ubuntu, bsd, windows). I liked aquamacs though, if I used exclusively osx I'd probably use aquamacs.