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TeX-friendly editors and shells

+

There are good TeX-writing environments and editors for most +operating systems; some are described below, but this is only a +personal selection: +

+
Unix
Try + GNU emacs + or XEmacs, and + the AUC-TeX + bundle (available from CTAN). AUC-TeX provides menu + items and control sequences for common constructs, checks syntax, + lays out markup nicely, lets you call TeX and drivers from + within the editor, and everything else like this that you can think + of. Complex, but very powerful. +

Many who consider the versions of emacs spawn of the devil, prefer + vim, a highly configurable + editor (also available for Windows and Macintosh systems). Many + plugins are available to support the needs of the (La)TeX user, + including syntax highlighting, calling TeX programs, + auto-insertion and -completion of common (La)TeX structures, and + browsing LaTeX help. The scripts auctex.vim and + bibtex.vim seem to be the most common recommendations. +

The editor NEdit is also free + and programmable, and is available for Unix systems. An + AUC-TeX-alike set of extensions for NEdit is available + from CTAN. +

LaTeX4Jed provides much enhanced LaTeX support for the + jed editor. + LaTeX4Jed is similar to AUC-TeX: menus, + shortcuts, templates, syntax highlighting, document outline, + integrated debugging, symbol completion, full integration with + external programs, and more. It was designed with both the beginner + and the advanced LaTeX user in mind. +

The Kile editor that is provided with the KDE + window manager provides GUI “shell-like” facilities, in a + similar way to the widely-praised Winedt (see below); + details (and downloads) are available from the project’s + home on SourceForge. A newer + system (by Kile’s original author), + texmaker doesn’t + rely on KDE’s facilities, and so may be more easily portable. +

MSDOS
TeXshell is a simple, + easily-customisable environment, which can be used with the editor + of your choice. +

You can also use GNU emacs and AUC-TeX + under MSDOS. +

Windows ’9x, NT, etc.
TeXnicCenter is a (free) + TeX-oriented development system, uniting a powerful platform for + executing (La)TeX and friends with a configurable editor. +

Winedt, a shareware package, is also highly spoken of. + It too provides a shell for the use of TeX and related programs, + as well as a powerful and well-configured editor. The editor can + generate its output in UTF-8 (to some extent), which is + useful when working with XeTeX (and other + “next-generation” (La)TeX applications). +

Both emacs and vim are available in versions + for Windows systems. +

OS/2
epmtex offers an OS/2-specific shell. +
Macintosh
The commercial Textures provides an excellent integrated + Macintosh environment with its own editor. More powerful still (as an + editor) is the shareware Alpha which is + extensible enough to let you perform almost any TeX-related job. It + works well with OzTeX. From release 2.2.0 (at least), Textures + works with MacOS X. +

For MacOS X users, the free tool of choice appears to be + TeXShop, which + combines an editor and a shell with a coherent philosophy of dealing + with (La)TeX in the OS X environment. TeXShop is distributed as + part of the MacTeX system, and will therefore be available out of + the box on machines on which MacTeX has been installed. +

Vim is also available for use on Macintosh systems. +

+Atari, Amiga and NeXT users also have nice +environments. LaTeX users looking for make-like +facilities should review the answer on +Makefiles for LaTeX documents. +

While many (La)TeX-oriented editors can support work on BibTeX +files, there are many systems that provide specific “database-like” +access to your BibTeX files — + see “creating a bibliography file”. + +

+
alpha
nonfree/systems/mac/support/alpha (gzipped tar, browse) +
auctex
support/auctex (gzipped tar, browse) +
epmtex
systems/os2/epmtex (gzipped tar, browse) +
LaTeX4Jed
support/jed (gzipped tar, browse) +
Nedit LaTeX support
support/NEdit-LaTeX-Extensions (gzipped tar, browse) +
TeXnicCenter
systems/win32/TeXnicCenter/ +
TeXshell
systems/msdos/texshell (gzipped tar, browse) +
TeXtelmExtel
systems/msdos/emtex-contrib/TeXtelmExtel (gzipped tar, browse) +
winedt
systems/win32/winedt/ +
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