Re: (TeX) Editors

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

At 07:42 PM 1/16/01 +0100, H. Ramm wrote:
>David Arnold wrote:
>> I use WinEdt. As much as I like WinEdt, I keep hoping to see that editor
>> you've talked about for Context. Someday. Anyhow, it seems that would aid
>> in the solution of a lot of problems that occur. A common IDE would give us
>> some common ground on which to communicate with you.
>
>I use Alpha on MacOS and N-Edit on Linux (I don't like Emacs, sorry),
>they both do (uncomplete) symmetry checks; their LaTeX mode is partly
>usable, but it should be easy for a programmer to adapt it to ConTeXt.
>(For Alpha it's written in TCL/Tk, Emacs needs Lisp, ...)

In many aspects, symmetry testing and highlighting is implemented to
clever. Context can do with stupid line based highlighting and minimal
symmetry testing. That's how it evolved. When i make commands, i wan tthem
to look ok in out syntax highlighter -) which is about the same as the
pretty-verbatim tex parser.

Hans
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