On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 4:46 PM, Bill Meahan <wmeahan94@gmail.com> wrote:

> On 08/08/2012 09:19 AM, Martin 'golodhrim' Scholz wrote:
>
>> Hi Willi,
>>
>> I used vim/gvim in the past and switched to emacs. I write all my stuff
>> with ConTeXt and with some tweaking of the commands you can also make
>> mkiv run inside of emacs. also nice is to write your metapost and use
>> the metapost mode for it that can generate a preview inside emacs for
>> you. Together with auctex and reftex emacs is in my opinion the best
>> tool for writing TeX/LaTeX/ConTeXt documents.
>>
>>
> I USED to run emacs + auctex but the ConTeXt support in auctex is minimal
> so I asked on the auctex mailing list if there would be any expansion of
> the ConTeXt support. I got back a one-sentence reply:
>
> "Code doesn't change itself."
>
> Hm, that code



> That ticked me off as the FSF has done for 30+ years. Not everyone is a
> developer and just having the source code doesn't mean you understand the
> language, the programming style, the particular programmer's choice of
> "tricks" or the way the software is broken up into functions, what
> functions are global and what functions are package-specific.
>
> A polite, "No, there's nobody working on it right now." might not have
> gored my ox so badly.
>
> no surprise, context comunity is small


> Since I'm going to have to write the kind of ConTeXt support I want, I
> switched to Textadept. Textadept is conceptually similar to emacs but it
> has been designed from the ground up for modern systems (emacs dates back
> to the 1970's) and uses Lua for an extension language. Lua is sufficiently
> similar to languages I have worked with in the past so learning it is
> pretty easy compared to learning LISP (aka "Long Indecipherable Sets of
> Parentheses") which is unlike anything else, period.
>
> Anyone involved in TeX programming has no fear of all others languages.

> Textadept is based on Scintilla rather than some home-grown display
> mechanism.
>
> I'm working on a ConTeXt-specific extension mode for ConTeXt that will not
> only provide syntax highlighting and command completion, but will provide
> command-specific option and parameter pick-lists for each command.
> Unfortunately, it's in my queue behind a couple of other big
> writing/journalism projects and won't be done for a while.
>
> I thought I was done coding after 45+ years of doing it but I guess I'm
> not.
>
> Sorry for the rant.
>
> why not Scite ? It's the Hans's preferred editor.


-- 
luigi