The cross-platform (Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X) editor, jEdit, supports syntax highlighting for over 200 programming languages and auto indent, as well as a differencing utility, an FTP browser, and block selecting. It is also extendable using plugins and macros, and there are hundreds of plugins and macros available through the built-in.

I also load AUCTeX. A steep learning curve It depends on what you want. I spend much of my day writing LaTeX inside emacs. I know probably a dozen commands.

The other commands are there if I need them, and every once in a while I do use them (shift rectangle right.). But for me at least things like command tab completion are a distraction. Obviously YMMV. Some advantages of emacs are: if you use another box then probably it is there, that you can edit your Python code in it, that you can use it in a terminal or in a GUI, and that it will never, never, never have a hiccup and lose your work. Emacs (+ auctex) is absolutely amazing.

Its a macbook pro 2009 with snow leopard on it, by the way. I was wondering whether: - Is it somehow possible to restore/recover/reinstall the system without the recovery/installation disks? - If I download this software (mountain lion) will I be able to install it on my system? And I can't order recovery disks from Apple as I am not currently in US and there is no Apple store in the entire country where I currently am. Mac os versions. I don't remember whether they didn't come with the system when I purchased it or I lost them.

It is aware of bibtex and you can search through references when including citations and can search through the document when you are referring to things like figures, tables, equations, chapters, etc. The 'preview-mode' which renders things like equations, headings, and figures in-line is just icing on the cake. I cannot vouch for vim (as it is an abomination), but know many people who would shout in the street about its greatness. I am jealous that vi is literally on every machine I have ever used (except for windows) whereas emacs is a bit more bloated. That being said, if you don't want to spend several months learning a text editor (its worth it though), then the linga franca LaTeX editor for mac is TeXShop.

It probably came with your distribution, so search for it. TeXShop is a fine editor. It doesn't have too many bells and whistles, but it gets the job done well. Also check out LaTeXit on your mac. Its handy for things like single equations in presentations or other 'word' documents.

Tex up an equation, and drag & drop the pdf to wherever you want. (And then, drag and drop back into LaTeXit to get your latex source back.) •.

LaTeX is great. And there are a plethora of latex editors with different features supported, just check this or this for comparisons. Over the years I have tried most of them, and has been a while since I settled for the following tools that I use depending on the situation. In this post, I am not aiming to give you a comprehensive comparison of latex editors, for that see the links above, but rather describe the reasons that work for me. • • • & • texstudio My latex editor of choice is. One of the main features that I need is a cross-platform editor as I work in multiple operating systems. And texstudio supports all that I need, OS X, Linux and Windows.

It works out of the box and has great integration with latex installations, built-in pdf viewer with forward and backward syncing, syntax highlighting, syntax auto-completion, reference and citation auto-completion, live spell-checking, useful reporting of errors, snippet wizards, compilation of master-document, automatic multiple compilation for references and citations, word-count, and many other features that make writing in latex a breeze. Also it is free and open source, licensed under GPL v2. If I could find any faults with it, it would be that: it does not allow split view; the default shortcuts for next/previous tab document, at least on OS X, are uncommon, but this is easily fixable in preferences.

Sublime is a cross-platform, powerful and feature rich general purpose text and code editor. With the help of plugins, like or, it becomes a great latex editor (both plugins are equally good and active). Mozilla firefox for mac pc. Sublime is my first or second preference for any task that requires text, for the additional reason that it is extremely fast to launch and edit; whenever I need to see a latex document quickly I open it with sublime. The only things that have made sublime fall short to texstudio as my first preference of a latex editor, is that it has no built-in previewer, texstudio has nicer error reporting and a complete build is a shortcut away.