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Announcing-aerc-0.1.0.md (2645B)


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  2. date: 2019-06-03
  3. layout: post
  4. title: "Initial pre-release of aerc: an email client for your terminal"
  5. tags: ["aerc", "announcement"]
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  7. After years of painfully slow development, the [aerc email
  8. client](https://aerc-mail.org) has seen a huge boost in its pace of development
  9. recently. This leads to today's announcement: [aerc 0.1.0 is now
  10. available][tag]! After my transition to [working on free software full
  11. time][full-time-foss] allowed me to spend more time on more projects, I was able
  12. to invest considerably more time into aerc. Your support led us here: thank you
  13. to all of the people who [donate to my work][donate]!
  14. [full-time-foss]: https://drewdevault.com/2019/01/15/Im-doing-FOSS-full-time.html
  15. [tag]: https://git.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/aerc/refs/0.1.0
  16. [donate]: https://drewdevault.com/donate
  17. I've prepared a short webcast demonstrating aerc's basic features - give it a
  18. watch if you're curious about what aerc looks like & what makes it interesting.
  19. <video controls>
  20. <source src="https://yukari.sr.ht/aerc-intro.webm"></source>
  21. <source src="https://yukari.sr.ht/aerc-intro.mp4"></source>
  22. A video would be shown here, but your web browser does not support it.
  23. </video>
  24. In summary, aerc is an email client which runs in your terminal emulator. If
  25. you're coming from mutt, you'll appreciate its more efficient & reliable
  26. networking, a keybinding system closer to vims, and embedded terminal emulator
  27. allowing you to compose emails and read new ones at the same time. It builds on
  28. this foundation with a lot of new and exciting features. For example, its
  29. "filter" feature allows us to review patches with syntax highlighting:
  30. ![Screenshot of aerc displaying a patch](https://sr.ht/JoqH.png)
  31. The embedded terminal emulator also allows us convenient access to nearby git
  32. repositories for running tests against incoming patches, pushing the changes
  33. once accepted, or anything else you might want to do. Want to run
  34. [Weechat](https://weechat.org/) in an aerc tab? Just like that, aerc has a chat
  35. client! Writing emails in vim, manipulating git & hg repositories, playing
  36. nethack to kill some time... all stuff you never realized your email client was
  37. missing.
  38. I plan on extending aerc in the future with more integrations with version
  39. control systems, calendar & contacts support, and more email configurations like
  40. notmuch and JMAP. Please consider
  41. [contributing](https://git.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/aerc) if you're interested in writing
  42. a little Go, or [donating monthly](https://drewdevault.com/donate) to ensure I
  43. always have time to work on this and other free software projects. Give aerc a
  44. try and let me know what you think!