Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt support for Atom or other text editors

On Tue, Jan 21, 2020 at 04:14:53PM +0100, Hans Hagen wrote:

On 1/21/2020 3:20 PM, Nicola wrote:

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On 2020-01-21, Sébastien Wilmet wrote:

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I'm actually looking for a text editor on Linux that supports those three features: - syntax highlighting - command completion - spell-checking

Does it exist?

Well, Vim has pretty solid support for ConTeXt (disclaimer: I am maintaining the ConTeXt plugin distributed with Vim), including the features you mention and much more:

https://wiki.contextgarden.net/Vim

But if you have never used Vim, it has a steeper learning curve that a typical text editor.

(btw, in scite/textadept there is support for syntax support, real time spell checking, nested lexing, etc)

I already know Vim, but nowadays I prefer an application that I can just launch and it just works, out of the box. With Vim I need to read the docs of plugins, configure the plugins, remember what are the keyboard shortcuts for spell-checking, etc. I should maybe try GVim instead of using Vim in a terminal. Or Neovim. I've tried to install scite and textadept, but on Linux it's a bit difficult with Scintillua. And I'm not sure that command completion is supported. BTW I'm the author of GNOME LaTeX ;-) https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/GNOME-LaTeX (this text editor supports only LaTeX, unfortunalety). If I have the time I would like to implement a new text editor specialized for TeX and ConTeXt. Sébastien