Aquamacs

As I've said before in previous posts, I've been learning the programming language Python recently. Up until a couple of weeks ago I was using Smultron as the editor for the code and then using the interpreter in the command line for the exercises I was doing. Recently though I have started using one of the original free software tools, emacs. There is a native mac build called Aquamacs which I have found very easy to pick up for anyone who has not used emacs before. All the usual OS X keyboard shortcuts still work like apple-s for save as emacs has many, many of it's own shortcuts and 'meta' keys which I won't go into here. One of the main features that I found useful is that Aquamacs comes with its own Python interpreter built in so that I don't have to leave the app to run a test program (there are obviously limitations to this). I don't want to say this is better than Smultron as they both have different features but I think it's worth trying out both if you are looking for an open source editor for the mac.