Announcing-aerc-0.1.0.md (2645B)
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- date: 2019-06-03
- layout: post
- title: "Initial pre-release of aerc: an email client for your terminal"
- tags: ["aerc", "announcement"]
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- After years of painfully slow development, the [aerc email
- client](https://aerc-mail.org) has seen a huge boost in its pace of development
- recently. This leads to today's announcement: [aerc 0.1.0 is now
- available][tag]! After my transition to [working on free software full
- time][full-time-foss] allowed me to spend more time on more projects, I was able
- to invest considerably more time into aerc. Your support led us here: thank you
- to all of the people who [donate to my work][donate]!
- [full-time-foss]: https://drewdevault.com/2019/01/15/Im-doing-FOSS-full-time.html
- [tag]: https://git.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/aerc/refs/0.1.0
- [donate]: https://drewdevault.com/donate
- I've prepared a short webcast demonstrating aerc's basic features - give it a
- watch if you're curious about what aerc looks like & what makes it interesting.
- <video controls>
- <source src="https://yukari.sr.ht/aerc-intro.webm"></source>
- <source src="https://yukari.sr.ht/aerc-intro.mp4"></source>
- A video would be shown here, but your web browser does not support it.
- </video>
- In summary, aerc is an email client which runs in your terminal emulator. If
- you're coming from mutt, you'll appreciate its more efficient & reliable
- networking, a keybinding system closer to vims, and embedded terminal emulator
- allowing you to compose emails and read new ones at the same time. It builds on
- this foundation with a lot of new and exciting features. For example, its
- "filter" feature allows us to review patches with syntax highlighting:
- ![Screenshot of aerc displaying a patch](https://sr.ht/JoqH.png)
- The embedded terminal emulator also allows us convenient access to nearby git
- repositories for running tests against incoming patches, pushing the changes
- once accepted, or anything else you might want to do. Want to run
- [Weechat](https://weechat.org/) in an aerc tab? Just like that, aerc has a chat
- client! Writing emails in vim, manipulating git & hg repositories, playing
- nethack to kill some time... all stuff you never realized your email client was
- missing.
- I plan on extending aerc in the future with more integrations with version
- control systems, calendar & contacts support, and more email configurations like
- notmuch and JMAP. Please consider
- [contributing](https://git.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/aerc) if you're interested in writing
- a little Go, or [donating monthly](https://drewdevault.com/donate) to ensure I
- always have time to work on this and other free software projects. Give aerc a
- try and let me know what you think!