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I really do wish I could agree, but sadly I cannot. Let's grant that the last time I tried to put TeXmacs into serious use was two years ago, but I don't see in
by chungy 11y ago
I really do wish I could agree, but sadly I cannot. Let's grant that the last time I tried to put TeXmacs into serious use was two years ago, but I don't see indicators much of it would have changed.
TeXmacs fails at usability right off the bat, even being unfamiliar to those used to Emacs keyboard chords (it's sort of implied in the name to be for that use-case), and I found it a little better after changing it to a CUA mode (I think it was called "GNOME Look and Feel"?). Finding crap in the toolbars and menu was obtuse, or even what all the keyboard shortcuts were. And then there was the fact that it was super-easy to crash and lose all your work in an instant. I found a particularly nasty case where just changing the type of header (chapter, sub-chapter, etc) crashed TeXmacs and caused all further attempts to open the file to crash the program immediately... grr
I would love if TeXmacs improves, or has improved, but I absolutely can't recommend it for serious work. Way too crash-happy, on both Debian and Windows systems. LyX is rock-solid stable, on the other hand (and has fewer "gotchas" due to its lack of WYSYWIG).