[NTG-context] Text editors

Alain Delmotte alain.delmotte at leliseron.org
Tue Mar 28 15:43:54 CEST 2023


Hi!

Le 26/03/2023 à 10:39, jbf via ntg-context a écrit :
>
> Every user has his or her own preferred test editor. Over 
> years I have used Emacs for just about everything except 
> the kitchen sink, but not, as it happens, for ConTeXt.
>
> For what it's worth here is what I use:
>
> (1) TeXworks. All one has to do is indicate the correct 
> path to ConText in the setup for this program, depending 
> on your OS and where you have installed it, e.g. 
> home/yourname/bin/context/tex/texmf-linux-64/bin if you 
> are using Linux and have installed it in \bin. Then choose 
> ConTeXt (LuaTeX) as the processing tool.
>
> (2) But to make things a lot easier, I also use Federico's 
> text expander Espanso 
> <https://duckduckgo.com/?q=espanso+site:espanso.org&t=lm&atb=v353-1>https://espanso.org 
> <https://espanso.org/>. This just saves so much time, 
> especially for so many \start...\stop sequences.  For 
> example, in espanso I might have:
>
You can do the same inside TeXworks. There are completion 
files in the folder 
C:\Users\yourname\AppData\Roaming\TUG\TeXworks\completion.

It is not yet completed for Context, but it should not be 
difficult to do that.

But thanks Julian, this is an interesting information

Alain

> Julian
>
> On 26/3/23 19:22, Alexandre Christe via ntg-context wrote:
>> Dear ConTeXt users,
>>
>> I'm wondering what kind of typesetting system / syntax 
>> highlighting / completion you're using.
>>
>> I've been using myself the simple_Context package for 
>> SublimeText which I scavenged a while ago before it was 
>> made unavailable (I wanted to attach but it's too big for 
>> the list). But it's sort of a dead-end.
>>
>> Open to anything from vim/neovim to emacs or more exotic. 
>> Maybe it would be nice to show the config. (And yes I've 
>> seen the Wiki page 
>> https://wiki.contextgarden.net/Text_Editorsbut I've the 
>> feeling some content is outdated.)
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>> Alex
>>
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