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Aquamacs Emacs vs GNU Emacs

A side-by-side look at Aquamacs Emacs and GNU Emacs. For an in-depth review of either product, follow the links below.

Aquamacs Emacs

Aquamacs Emacs

Development

Aquamacs Emacs is a free open-source text editor and command-line interface for macOS based on GNU Emacs. It has an intuitive, Aqua-inspired graphical user interface while providing advanced text editing features of Emacs.

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GNU Emacs

GNU Emacs

Development

GNU Emacs is a popular, open source text editor and computing environment. It runs on most operating systems and provides extensibility through an Emacs Lisp interpreter.

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