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Decades ago at least it used to crash and eat your data, which I think is a pretty strong barrier to adoption for software that holds important data of yours in

by patrec 7y ago

Decades ago at least it used to crash and eat your data, which I think is a pretty strong barrier to adoption for software that holds important data of yours in its own proprietary format. I just tried the most recent version, and after two decades it still feels pretty alpha quality (Menu -> Quit Texmacs -> no effect; extremely laggy; low-res icons etc.).

badsectoracula 7y ago
I tried it a few months ago because i really prefer GUI tools to entering weird codes in text files (and i'm saying that as someone who has made his own tools with his own weird codes :-P) and it felt very "alpha quality" to me too. It would randomly crash or hang, losing changes or do nothing and when it worked it would feel sluggish. To test it out i tried to replicate some pages from the first section of the original Turbo Pascal 3 manual (which is mostly text) but i could barely do more than two pages. I like the idea, but the execution wasn't that good. It really didn't felt as something i could rely on at all.
- mgubi 7y ago
  Many of us use everyday (me included, typing papers of +60 pages on monthly basis). There are still some rugged edges in the GUI but is certainly not alpha quality software. The Qt interface have been there since at least 2009 and nowadays we have one or two nasty bugs which we plan to address in the following months but nothing serious. As you can see from these videos (here https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLjXdYclFpynD0ufg_pp-5MT5-X-57Okvs https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLjXdYclFpynD0ufg_pp-5... ) all is quite stable. Unfortunately TeXmacs stress many corners of the Qt/Mac port and we need to go around bugs there constantly. If you experience more reproductible crashes then would be good to know, either show up in the mailing list or file a bug report in Savannah. If nobody complains we cannot fix them :)
ryukafalz 7y ago
>for software that holds important data of yours in its own proprietary format This seems like an odd description. TeXmacs may be the only implementation of the format, but it seems well-documented and the code is all free software. I don't think I'd call it a proprietary format.

by patrec 7y ago

badsectoracula 7y ago

I tried it a few months ago because i really prefer GUI tools to entering weird codes in text files (and i'm saying that as someone who has made his own tools with his own weird codes :-P) and it felt very "alpha quality" to me too. It would randomly crash or hang, losing changes or do nothing and when it worked it would feel sluggish. To test it out i tried to replicate some pages from the first section of the original Turbo Pascal 3 manual (which is mostly text) but i could barely do more than two pages. I like the idea, but the execution wasn't that good. It really didn't felt as something i could rely on at all.

mgubi 7y ago
Many of us use everyday (me included, typing papers of +60 pages on monthly basis). There are still some rugged edges in the GUI but is certainly not alpha quality software. The Qt interface have been there since at least 2009 and nowadays we have one or two nasty bugs which we plan to address in the following months but nothing serious. As you can see from these videos (here https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLjXdYclFpynD0ufg_pp-5MT5-X-57Okvs https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLjXdYclFpynD0ufg_pp-5... ) all is quite stable. Unfortunately TeXmacs stress many corners of the Qt/Mac port and we need to go around bugs there constantly. If you experience more reproductible crashes then would be good to know, either show up in the mailing list or file a bug report in Savannah. If nobody complains we cannot fix them :)

ryukafalz 7y ago

>for software that holds important data of yours in its own proprietary format This seems like an odd description. TeXmacs may be the only implementation of the format, but it seems well-documented and the code is all free software. I don't think I'd call it a proprietary format.