Hi, > Just out of curiosity, what are the other common ConTeXt editors?
There aren't any, as I know. There is TeXMate (Mac OS) offering a lot of support within its dialogs: I tried it and I guess they just put all possible commands into this menu and one have to find the right command among of too much stuff. As most of "TeX editors", they often are more TeX environments (TexShop, TextMate, TeXWorks &c.). The "official" ConTeXt editor is Scite becauce it is recommended by Hans Hagen (the guy who developed ConTeXt). But I could't find any real support in it; maybe more a personal preference of Hans Hagen. As I know, there should be a support by Vi, also. But anyway, since no Emacs user would change the editor just for editing ConTeXt, it would be a deal to have a good ConTeXt support for Emacs. (1) Emacs is one of the major and standard editosr for working with TeX files, (2) ConTeXt community will grow, I assume. > I wouldn't say this is a hack, it's just the right thing to do in order ... It's from the Internet, of course :) As I told you: I am an editor not a developer and so, I am an Emacs user, not a programmer. If I need something new, I look in the web and put it into my .emacs and usually it works => that is my LISP knowledge! l fear, if you would see my .emacs, you'll get blind :)= > Speaking for myself, I don't know what to ask! Hm, easy: I think if ConTeXt users would have a similar comfort in editing their files like LaTeX users ... at the best level with the same commands! There a lot which already works: e.g. if I do C-c-f-e I got {\em } instead of \emph{} and that's good (coming from MKII support, I believe). Since ConTeXt IV can things a lot better for a direct XML export, many structures need to be closed after using, e.g. instead the command \section{Headline} we need: \startsection[ reference=sec:hd, title={Headline }, ] \stopsection and that's a kind of cumbersome ... and it would be a big help to have a nice shortcut to do it. Or, if you want to use ConTeXts proper XML export, you should edit a list \startblabla \startitem First \stopitem \startitem Second \stopitem \startitem Third \stopitem \stopblabla instead of \begin{blabla} \item First \item Second \Third \end{blabla} and so on. Many commands from MKII are just fine for MkIV. I think it is worth offering a standard ConTeXt MkIV support with Emacs. Have a nice day, tobber Mit freundlichen Grüßen Tobias Berndt Technischer Redakteur baramundi software AG Beim Glaspalast 1 86153 Augsburg tobias.ber...@baramundi.de www.baramundi.de Fon: +49 (821) 5 67 08 - 577 Fax: +49 (821) 5 67 08 - 19 Vorstand: Dipl.-Ing. (FH) Uwe Beikirch | Dipl.-Kfm. Karl Scheid Aufsichtsratsvorsitzender: Dipl.-Ing. Univ. (TUM) Norbert Klump Sitz und Registergericht: Augsburg, HRB-Nr. 2064 | USt-IdNr. DE 210294111 -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: Mosè Giordano [mailto:m...@gnu.org] Gesendet: Freitag, 2. September 2016 16:33 An: Tobias Berndt <tobias.ber...@baramundi.de> Cc: auctex <auctex@gnu.org> Betreff: Re: [AUCTeX] ConTeXt MkIV Support 2016-09-02 14:16 GMT+02:00 Tobias Berndt <tobias.ber...@baramundi.de>: > ... I could use the "context "compilation (instead of mkii "texexec") already > before via a hack: > > (add-hook 'ConTeXt-mode-hook (lambda() (add-to-list 'TeX-command-list > '("ConTeXt MKIV" "context %t" TeX-run-TeX nil (context-mode) )) (setq > TeX-command-default "ConTeXt MKIV") (setq TeX-save-query nil ) > )) I wouldn't say this is a hack, it's just the right thing to do in order to add another command (apart from the fact I suggest you to put in a `with-eval-after-load' instead of using a hook that is run every time you open a new ConTeXt file) :-) The variable `ConTeXt-Mark-version' enables you to easily switch between the two Mark versions without further work on the user's side. > If you guys need more input to improve ConTeXt MkIV support in AucTeX---just > ask (but since I have been working with ConTeXt just one year, I'm just a > little more than a newbi. Hackers you'll find at contextgarden). Since I am a > writer not a hacker, I cannot contribute any code, sorry! Speaking for myself, I don't know what to ask! I don't know what are the needs of ConTeXt users editing their code with AUCTeX. My very broad question would be: what do ConTeXt users want in AUCTeX? Even if I got good answers, I don't thing I'd be able to develop those features. What we need are good developers that have an idea of what to do, and users to suggest more features. Both categories are warmly welcome, but the first is more needed. Just out of curiosity, what are the other common ConTeXt editors? Bye, Mosè _______________________________________________ auctex mailing list auctex@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/auctex