Dnia Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 07:31:32AM +0200, Peter Münster napisał(a):
On Wed, Oct 22 2008, Marcin Borkowski wrote:
Well, my heart is breaking when I type this, but my beloved emacs;) has rather poor ConTeXt support... I use Emacs 22 with AUCTeX 11.84. Well, although it *works*, it is by no means convenient - at least not that convenient as an emacs should be;).
Hello Marcin,
What are the problems with emacs?
Here is the (unordered) list of what I remember at the moment. * It almost never knows when to launch "View"; it almost always offers me to "ConTeXt" the file. * (This is probably related to the previous one.) When finished compilation, it says "ConTeXt: problems after {1} page." or something like this. * When finding files, it offers me to find not only the .tex file, but also all the .tui, .tuo stuff etc. by default, which is rather inconvenient. * It has no idea about most of ConTeXt commands, e.g., it tries to insert {} after ConTeXt commands put by C-c C-m. * Unlike when editing LaTeX files, it does not insert an \item when doing C-c C-e itemize. I use itemizations a lot and this is a bit annoying, especially that I got used to its behaior when doing LaTeX. Also, having C-c C-j asking about the (optional) label all the time is also tiring, I would prefer to be asked for it only with C-u C-c C-j. * Only recently I discovered the --arrange parameter for texexec, and the fact that AUCTeX does not know about it. * By default, being in dvi or pdf mode doesn't matter: you always end up with a pdf file. This is fine when you have a fast computer, but on low-end, older ones (like mine;)) xdvi is *a lot* faster than xpdf. I use the emacs & AUCTeX shipped with ubuntu 8.04. It seems that emacs comes preconfigured in this system in a rather stupid way, e.g., transient-mark-mode is on by default, which is not what I was used to. A skim through the initialization files shows, however, that the ubuntu people messed with almost everything but ConTeXt support, so this seems to be a general AUCTeX issue. I know that these are not *serious* problems; but the UX is poor with them... I plan to learn emacs lisp a bit in my spare time (though I almost forgot what "spare time" means;P), but I certainly won't do any serious hacking there.
Cheers, Peter
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