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Aquamacs Emacs

The Emacs for the Mac.

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Aquamacs is a modern editor based on GNU Emacs, designed to feel like a native Mac application while providing the full power and extensibility of Emacs. It includes pre-installed packages for LaTeX, statistics, XML, and many programming languages, and integrates with macOS features such as fonts, menus, clipboard, spell-checking, and printing.

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