Re: Tex or Context Editors.

[Mari Voipio <mari.voipio@iki.fi>]

On Mon, 8 Nov 2004, Dirar BOUGATEF wrote:
> Am using eclipse as my editor (eTex) but it is really too heavy, anyone
> knows of an editor that works fine within tex and windows.

Depends on what you want of your editor and how you want it to be. I use
NTEmacs (prefer that to XEmacs) with context.el and I have yet to see it
to crash in the ConTeXt mode (some others on the other hand... but that's
a rare problem).

As I don't ever write TeX (wouldn't know how, I started with ConTeXt), I
autoload the ConTeXt mode on top of tex mode, but I understand that you
could keep the default settings to do TeX and load the Context major mode
only when writing ConTeXt.

The ConTeXt CD system has SciTe and it looks like something a "normal"
(not so nerdy) Windows user would want, but I'm long time GNUEmacs user
and prefer NTEmacs already for that (I also find that compiling is easier
to follow and debug in Emacs, but this is a personal preference).

The disclaimer here is that my ConTeXt code is fairly basic and I write
codes by hand, I only use the editor to highlight (which job it does quite
nicely) and validate (checking the parentheses) the code and to compile
and view pdf files. So my needs are very simply and are easily filled by
either SciTe (for those mouse people...) or NTEmacs (for those who are
willing to learn something new or already know Emacs), both extended with
suitable ConTeXt package (mode, plug-in, whatever you want to call it).

I guess I should really start working on those "ConTeXt basics for
Windows" articles or something...


			mari
			(just slightly "nerdish" Windows person)