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When I used to use TeXmacs I would have annoying glitches to the point where I just called back to TeX with regular Emacs. I think its general clunkyness really
by zitterbewegung 4y ago
When I used to use TeXmacs I would have annoying glitches to the point where I just called back to TeX with regular Emacs. I think its general clunkyness really held it back. The problem now is that people still use regular Emacs and share the TeX file locally or use a service like overleaf that allows for collaboration online. TeXmacs in my opinion tried to solve a problem for a small subset of users that it didn't really catch on.
- mgubi 4y agoI'm not sure what are you referring to. TeXmacs is used everyday by many people, at lest 3/4 of my students wrote their PhD thesis with it, some of them enterely, other the initial draft. All my papers are written with it, lecture notes, presentations, letters. My experience is the same of many other people. Even comparning TeXmacs with AucTeX+Emacs is misleading. Totally different user experience. TeXmacs does not have yet a fully stable collaborative functionality, but the functionality is there and it experimentally work. Maybe one day will be completed and you will not need to rely on a central server to use it, just fire up a TeXmacs instance to be the server and connect the others: https://mobile.twitter.com/gnu_texmacs/status/1391065772533899266 https://mobile.twitter.com/gnu_texmacs/status/13910657725338... So, slowly, but we will be there too. :)