Re[4]: Editing ConTeXt

[Giuseppe Bilotta <bourbaki@bigfoot.com>]

>>Is TeXedit some internal PRAGMA editing program?

HH> indeed, it started as a fast and memory efficient windowing editor called
HH> 'wdt' on 8088 pc's, and in the begin 90's evolved into 'texedit' [and
HH> 'texform' i.e. a tex-template editor/runner and texadres i.e. mailing and
HH> alike database editor].

[snip]

HH> The advantage of texedit is that i can pretty quickly browse/access files
HH> as well as that texedit knows about the context file project structure. Of
HH> course there is (partial) running, based on config files, etc. etc. Since
HH> the core engine is rather fast, we could even implement realtime syntax
HH> highlighting, real time color based spell checking, etc on the 16mhz 386
HH> 4meg mem machines that we used for long. That was the time that i spat our
HH> more modula-2 code than tex code and i must admit that i haven't touched
HH> the modula code since years, since perl is rather well suited for many text
HH> jobs [but the code looks ugly]]

HH> Now, since i want to be able to run on windows as well as linux, i made
HH> texwork, i.e. a perl/tk based counterpart of texedit. Although it has some
HH> more features, it's not yet fully tested and finished. In due time, texwork
HH> [and for most users probably more interesting texform] will be available in
HH> the distribution. I must admit that i'm not in that much hurry, since the
HH> combinations texedit + fptex + gsview + acrobat works quite well on
HH> windows.     

Is TeXedit avaiable somewhere? Also, You mention TeXwork as a
Perl/Tk editor, but the cont-wrk.zip file available at the site
seems to only have ConTeXt support modules for TeXwork. Is the
editor available somewhere?

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Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta