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From the modern dock icon to the apple services support to the ability to use all of your fonts and shortcuts; this is a modern Mac OS X application.
How does Aquamacs fare compared to other editors? Here's what Aquamacs can and cannot do compared to some popular editors on the Mac.
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| Copy & Paste | X11/Unix-like |  |
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| Syntax Coloring | Major languages like C and XML | |
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| Printing | WYSIWYG | |
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| Code folding | (outline mode) | (outline mode) | |
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| Free use of all fonts | |
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| HTML Support | good | ok | great | |
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| LaTeX Support | very good | decent | basic | basic | |
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| Color Themes | Supported | |
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| Tool Bar | Supported | |
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| Individually switchable | |
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| Help / Documentation | Apple Help, PDF, info | only info, PDF online | Apple Help (some), PDF | Apple Help (basic) | |
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| Scriptable? Macro-Language? | fully (elisp) | fully (elisp) | partially (AppleScript) | |
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| Version Control | CVS, SVN | CVS, SVN | CVS, SVN | |
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| Multi-Language Input Methods | native, Emacs | native, Emacs | native | |
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| Multiple Buffers per Window | Supported | |
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| Saves cursor position in file persistently | |
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| Customizability | extensive, often hard | extensive, almost always hard | some, easy | basic, easy | |
| Cross-Platform | subset | fully | |
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| Spell-Checking | ispell, aspell (installer package) | ispell, aspell (manual install) | OS X native | OS X native | |
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| Built-in Shrink :-) | |
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| Price | free, donation USD$/€20 | free | USD$199 | free | |
| License / Source | GPL | GPL | closed source | GPL | |
Note: This table is obviously subjective. If you have suggestions, please subscribe and write to the Aquamacs mailing list. There is also a noteworthy comparative review of text editors at Wikipedia.
