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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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  8. After years of painfully slow development, the [aerc email
  9. client](https://aerc-mail.org) has seen a huge boost in its pace of development
  10. recently. This leads to today's announcement: [aerc 0.1.0 is now
  11. available][tag]! After my transition to [working on free software full
  12. time][full-time-foss] allowed me to spend more time on more projects, I was able
  13. to invest considerably more time into aerc. Your support led us here: thank you
  14. to all of the people who [donate to my work][donate]!
  16. [full-time-foss]: https://drewdevault.com/2019/01/15/Im-doing-FOSS-full-time.html
  17. [tag]: https://git.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/aerc/refs/0.1.0
  18. [donate]: https://drewdevault.com/donate
  20. I've prepared a short webcast demonstrating aerc's basic features - give it a
  21. watch if you're curious about what aerc looks like & what makes it interesting.
  23. <video controls>
  24.   <source src="https://yukari.sr.ht/aerc-intro.webm"></source>
  25.   <source src="https://yukari.sr.ht/aerc-intro.mp4"></source>
  26.   A video would be shown here, but your web browser does not support it.
  27. </video>
  29. In summary, aerc is an email client which runs in your terminal emulator. If
  30. you're coming from mutt, you'll appreciate its more efficient & reliable
  31. networking, a keybinding system closer to vims, and embedded terminal emulator
  32. allowing you to compose emails and read new ones at the same time. It builds on
  33. this foundation with a lot of new and exciting features. For example, its
  34. "filter" feature allows us to review patches with syntax highlighting:
  36. ![Screenshot of aerc displaying a patch](https://sr.ht/JoqH.png)
  38. The embedded terminal emulator also allows us convenient access to nearby git
  39. repositories for running tests against incoming patches, pushing the changes
  40. once accepted, or anything else you might want to do. Want to run
  41. [Weechat](https://weechat.org/) in an aerc tab? Just like that, aerc has a chat
  42. client! Writing emails in vim, manipulating git & hg repositories, playing
  43. nethack to kill some time... all stuff you never realized your email client was
  44. missing.
  45.  
  46. I plan on extending aerc in the future with more integrations with version
  47. control systems, calendar & contacts support, and more email configurations like
  48. notmuch and JMAP. Please consider
  49. [contributing](https://git.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/aerc) if you're interested in writing
  50. a little Go, or [donating monthly](https://drewdevault.com/donate) to ensure I
  51. always have time to work on this and other free software projects. Give aerc a
  52. try and let me know what you think!