On 06/19/2013 04:21 AM, Patrick Dickey wrote: > In a couple of threads, people were discussing GUI-based editors for > tex files. If you've got Wine installed, you can install Notepad ++ > and it supports LaTeX highlighting. The only issue you might run into > is whether it uses the same carriage returns (Unix or DOS) as the > rest of the manual (but I honestly don't think that's an issue).
Let's not start a big editor war here, but if you are in a cross-platform environment (which is likely if you have installed wine), and looking for a good text editor for use with LaTeX files, wouldn't it make more sense to use emacs24, which is a GUI editor that can run in Linux or Windows or OS X, handles multiple line ending conventions, and has all sorts of LaTeX-related capabilities, including highlighting? It also "knows about" version control systems, including bzr, so you get some handy version-control related commands too :) Once you decide that "easy" text editors like nano and notepad are insufficient for your text editing needs, I think it makes sense to find one cross-platform text editor that will meet your needs for a long time -- so the time investment you make in learning it is repaid, on all platforms, over the next few years (or decades) :) I'm a *big* fan of learning tools that are cross-platform and open source, and learning them *once*. Then I don't ever need to relearn how to use an editor, or email, or a web browser, or an image editor, or an audio recorder, or whatever other tool it might be, just because I move from one computer to a different one. Emacs, Thunderbird, Firefox, GIMP, Audacity... :) Jonathan _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-manual Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-manual More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
