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)