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<table>{| <tr |- style="backgroundtext-align:#ccccccleft;"> ! colspan="2" | Features|-| C: || ConTeXt syntax highlighting (and perhaps command completion)|-| P: || PDF preview|-| S: || [[SyncTeX]] support (synchronising between text in PDF and TeX source) |-| T: || ConTeXt typesetting|-| 2: || bidirectional editing (right-to-left)|-| _<tdsup> Editor ?</tdsup>: || previous feature probable but unsure|}{||- style="text-align:left;"! colspan="2" | OSes|-| L: || Linux|-| M: || MacOS|-| W: || Windows|} <td> Features </td> <td> OSs </td>{||- style="text-align:left;background:#cccccc;" <td> ! Editor !! Features !! OSes !! Remarks </td> </tr>|- <tr> <td> | [https://atom.io Atom]</td> <td> | CSP </td> <td> || LMW </td> <td>| The new text editor for the kool kids, based on Electron. Good git client. Lots of plugins covering any editing task. Install plugins "language-context" and "pdf-view" for C and P.</td> </tr> <tr |- style="background:#eeeeee;"> <td> | [http://www.barebones.com/products/bbedit/ BBEdit]</td> <td> | CSTP </td> <td> || M </td> <td>| Venerable, powerful text editor for MacOS. Highlighting, section navigation, and code folding available through a [https://github.com/pmazaitis/ConTeXtBBLM/releases language module]; typesetting and PDF preview available through an [http://dflect.net/context-typeset-tool/ external script]. </td> </tr>|- <tr> <td> | [http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki Emacs] with [http://www.gnu.org/software/auctex/ AUCTeX] </td> <td> | CT </td> <td> || LMW </td> <td> | Extremely powerful & highly configurable text editor for CTRL- and ALT- key lovers.<br>The official AUCTeX distribution beginning with 11.50 has ConTeXt support. Further [[AUCTeX]] customization for ConTeXt. <br>If you write documents with bibliographies, indexes, or cross-references, you may also be interested in [[Reftex|using Reftex]]. There is also [[Emacs-muse]] which is an extension.</td> </tr> <tr |- style="background:#eeeeee;"> <td> | [https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Gedit gedit] </td> <td> </td> <td> | || L(MW) </td> <td> | GNOME editor </td> </tr>|- <tr> <td> | [http://www.jedit.org jEdit]</td> <td> </td> <td> | || LMW </td> <td>| Cross-platform mature programmer’s text editor. Good support for TeX and LilyPond among the rest.</td> </tr> <tr |- style="background:#eeeeee;"> <td> | [http://kate-editor.org Kate] </td> <td> | C</td> <td> || L(MW) </td>

</tr>|- <tr> <td> | [http://www.nano-editor.org/ nano] </td> <td> </td> <td> | || L(MW) </td> <td> | Curses-based text editor for Unix and Unix-like systems, designed to be a free replacement for the Pico text editor. Has basic TeX syntax highlighting. </td> </tr> <tr |- style="background:#eeeeee;"> <td> | [[Notepad++]] </td> | CT<tdsup> CT?2 </td> <tdsup> 2 || W </td> <td> | Npp is one of the most powerful and useful text editors on Windows (you can also use it under Wine). Modern interface with loads of included features (see especially the TextFX menu). ConTeXt support files come with the ConTeXt distribution in directory <tt>texmf-context/context/data/npp</tt>.</td> </tr>|- <tr> <td>| [[Scite]]</td> <td> | CT </td> <td> || L(M)W </td> <td> | ConTeXt support files come with the ConTeXt distribution in directory <tt>texmf-context/context/data/scite</tt>. See also the [http://www.pragma-ade.com/general/manuals/mscite-s.pdf manual mscite.pdf]. SciTE for Mac is commercial (AppStore). </td> </tr> <tr |- style="background:#eeeeee;"> <td> | [https://www.peterborgapps.com/smultron/ Smultron]</td> <td> | PTU </td> <td> || M </td> <td>| Shareware. [[ConTeXt_Minimals/Mac_Installation#Smultron_installation_and_configuration|Old configuration instructions]].<|-| [https://www.sublimetext.com/td>Sublime Text]| CT2 || LMW <| Uncluttered yet extremely powerful & widely revered text editor. With Package Control, install the vital [https://packagecontrol.io/packages/tr>simple_ConTeXt simple_ConTeXt] package. <tr>|- style="background:#eeeeee;" <td> | [https://projects.eclipse.org/projects/science.texlipse/ TeXlipse] </td> | PS<tdsup> PS?T </td> <tdsup> T || LMW </td> <td> | LaTeX-Extension for Eclipse (part of Eclipse Science)</td> </tr>|- <tr style="background:#eeeeee;"> <td> | [http://www.uoregon.edu/~koch/texshop/ TeXshop] </td> <td> | PT </td> <td> || M </td> <td> | Simple TeX IDE for OSX. [[ConTeXt_Minimals/Mac_Installation#TeXShop_installation_and_configuration|Old Configuration instructions]] </td> </tr>|- style="background:#eeeeee;" <tr> <td> | [https://www.texstudio.org/ TeXstudio] </td> <td> | PST </td> <td> || LMW </td> <td> | Extensive, memory-hungry LaTeX IDE. Too LaTeX-centered to be really helpful for ConTeXt.</td> </tr>|- <tr style="background:#eeeeee;"> <td>| [[Textadept]]</td> <td> | CT </td> <td> || LMW </td> <td> | ConTeXt support files come with the ConTeXt distribution in directory <tt>texmf-context/context/data/textadept</tt>.</td> </tr>|- style="background:#eeeeee;" <tr> <td> | [[TextMate]] </td> <td> | C </td> <td> || M </td> <td> | The ConTeXt bundle is not in the distribution, but you can download a copy from [https://github.com/pgundlach/context.tmbundle/ GitHub]. </td> </tr>|- <tr style="background:#eeeeee;"> <td> | [http://www.textpad.com/ TextPad]</td> <td> | CT </td> <td> || W </td> <td> | Commercial; TeX/ConTeXt/LaTeX command library; configurable to run a whatever-TeX command as a tool</td> </tr>|- style="background:#eeeeee;" <tr> <td>| [http://www.tug.org/texworks/ TeXWorks]</td> <td> | PST </td> <td> || LMW </td> <td> | Probably the most widespread TeX IDE, similar to TeXshop, supported by TUG. ConTeXt support files come with the ConTeXt distribution in directory <tt>texmf-context/context/data/texworks</tt>.</td> </tr>|- <tr style="background:#eeeeee;"> <td> | [[Vim]] </td> <td> | CT2 </td> <td> || LMW </td>

</tr> <tr>|- style="background:#eeeeee;" <td> | [http://www.winedt.com/ WinEdt]</td> <td> | T </td> <td> || W </td>

</tr> <tr style="background:#eeeeee;"><td colspan="4"></td></tr></table> '''Features/OSs:''' * C = ConTeXt syntax highlighting (and perhaps command completion)* P = PDF preview * S = [[SyncTeX]] support (synchronising between text in PDF and TeX source) * T = ConTeXt typesetting* 2 = bidirectional editing (right-to-left)* ? = previous feature probable but unsure* L = Linux* M = MacOS X* W = Windows (Probably more editors have C and T.)|}