For emacs users I strongly recommend whizzytex + advi (at least if you find advi in your repos; it's somewhat painful to build advi on your own.) Almost as goo

For emacs users I strongly recommend whizzytex + advi (at least if you find advi in your repos; it's somewhat painful to build advi on your own.) Almost as good is emacs + auctex - the first C-c C-c compiles the file, the second brings the document up in a dvi previewer with the page "flipped" to whatever you are working on. Both setups allow inverse search - click somewhere in the dvi viewer and your emacs cursor is moved to the corresponding source location.