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Isn't it time for everyone to move on to TeXmacs, not only for WYSIWYG editing of scientific/math documents, but also for note taking and even programming?
by amichail 5y ago
Isn't it time for everyone to move on to TeXmacs, not only for WYSIWYG editing of scientific/math documents, but also for note taking and even programming?
- Koshkin 5y agoTeXmacs is amazing but has been staying in a relative obscurity for some reason. It could be a great tool for the so-called literal programming. (Curiously, TeXmacs has little to do with TeX or emacs.)
- alex_smart 5y agoTeXmacs for programming?!
- Jtsummers 5y agoIf you do literate programming or work with a REPL, sure. https://www.nongnu.org/fangle/examples/hello-world.pdf https://www.nongnu.org/fangle/examples/hello-world.pdf
- convolvatron 5y agook. that looks interesting. will try, do you think there are any downsides in trying to use this as a general purpose programming environment? edit: whoa - you mean I can't use normal emacs cursor movement? no thanks, emacs for me is all about no menus and no modality.
- ravi-delia 5y agoIs it? First time I've ever heard of it, although looking at it I must say I am intrigued. What would you say are its main positive features?
- amichail 5y agoIt's currently an amazing way to write math/science documents in a truly WYSIWYG editor.
- false-mirror 5y agoWhat would the incentive be for a current emacs user? It's hard to imagine giving up org-mode would ever be worthwhile personally.
- Jtsummers 5y agoYeah. I liked it when I used it, but it's not actually an emacs replacement in a general sense. There's a much smaller community and set of extensions (plug-ins in their term, packages in emacs). It was pleasant to use as a notebook front-end with Maxima and Octave when I used them.
- amichail 5y agoMaybe someone could write a WYSIWYG org-mode for TeXmacs.