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You can use any text editor that can save text files in UTF-8 for creating a source file for ConTeXt, even notepad should do.

== ConTeXt-aware == <table> <tr style="background:#cccccc;"> <td> Editor </td> <td colspan="7"> features Features </td> <td> Linux OSs </td> <td> Win Remarks </td> <td/tr> MacOS X <tr> <td> [https://atom.io Atom]</td> <td> Remarks CSP </td> <td> LMW </trtd> <tr style=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"background:#eeeeee;and "> <td> [http://wwwpdf-view" for C and P.emacswiki.org</cgi-bintd> </wiki Emacs] with tr> <tr style="background:#eeeeee;"> <td> [http://www.gnubarebones.orgcom/softwareproducts/auctexbbedit/ AUCTeXBBEdit] </td> <td> CSTP </td> <td> M </td> <td> S <Venerable, powerful text editor for MacOS. Highlighting, section navigation, and code folding available through a [https://github.com/td><td> T <pmazaitis/td><td> U ConTeXtBBLM/releases language module]; typesetting and PDF preview available through an [http://dflect.net/context-typeset-tool/ external script]. </td><td> </tdtr> <td> ? </tdtr> <td> y <[http:/td> <td> y </td> www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki Emacs] with [http://www.gnu.org/software/auctex/ AUCTeX] </td> y </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. Berend de Boers ConTeXt mode for Emacs has been merged with the former ConTeXt support in AUCTeX by Patrick Gundlach. The Further [[AUCTeX]] page on this wiki has further AUCTeX customization 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> <trstyle="background:#eeeeee;"> <td> [[Vim]] <https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Gedit gedit] </td> <td> </td> <td> L(MW) </td> <td> S GNOME editor </td><td> T </tdtr> <tdtr> U </td><td> 2 <[http://td><td> ? www.jedit.org jEdit]</td> <td> y </td> <td> y LMW </td> <td> y Cross-platform mature programmer’s text editor. Good support for TeX and LilyPond among the rest.</td> <td/tr> Extremely powerful & highly configurable text editor. It operates in different "modes <tr style="background:#eeeeee;"> <td> [http: you type in text in "insert mode" and pass commands to the //kate-editor in "normal mode." Whether you prefer Vim or emacs is a religious question of the highest importance.org Kate] </td> </trtd> C<tr style="background:#eeeeee;"/td> <td>[[Scite]]L(MW) </td> <td> C <Kate is an advanced multi-document text editor for KDE. It has built-in LaTeX syntax highlighting, but you can install a [http:/td><td> </td><td> S <kde-files.org/content/td><td> T <show.php/td><td> U ConTeXt+-+Syntax+Highlighting?content=54006 file that provides ConTeXt syntax highlight]. </tdtr> <td> </tdtr> <td> [http://www.nano-editor.org/ nano] </td> <td> y </td> <td> y L(MW) </td> <td> y (X11) 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> <td/tr> ConTeXt support not before v1.6.x. ConTeXt support files come with the ConTeXt distribution in directory context/data/context.properties. See also the <tr style="background:#eeeeee;"> <td> [[http:Notepad++]] </td> <td> CT?2 </www.pragma-ade.com/general/manuals/mscite-s.pdf manual mcite.pdf]. td> <td> W </td> </trtd><tr> <td> [http://wwwNpp is one of the most powerful and useful text editors on Windows (you can also use it under Wine).uoregonModern interface with loads of included features (see especially the TextFX menu).edu/~kochConTeXt support files come with the ConTeXt distribution in directory <tt>texmf-context/context/texshopdata/ TeXshop] npp</tdtt> .</td> ? </tdtr> <tdtr> P </td><td> S [[Scite]]</td> <td> T CT </td> <td> U L(M)W </td> <td> ConTeXt support files come with the ConTeXt distribution in directory <tt>texmf-context/td><td> <context/td> <td> - <data/td> <td> - scite</tdtt> <td> y (native)<. See also the [http://td> <td> Simple Cocoa IDEwww. [[ConTeXt_Minimals/Mac_Installation#TeXShop_installation_and_configuration|Configuration instructions]] <pragma-ade.com/general/td> <manuals/tr><tr stylemscite-s.pdf manual mscite.pdf]. SciTE for Mac is commercial (AppStore). </td> </tr> <tr style="background:#eeeeee;"> <td> [[iTeXMac]https://www.peterborgapps.com/smultron/ Smultron] </td> <td> ? PTU </td> <td> P M </td> <td> S <Shareware. [[ConTeXt_Minimals/td>Mac_Installation#Smultron_installation_and_configuration|Old configuration instructions]].</td> T </tdtr> <tr> <td> U [https://projects.eclipse.org/projects/science.texlipse/ TeXlipse] </td> <td> PS?T </td> <td> + LMW </td> <td> LaTeX- Extension for Eclipse (part of Eclipse Science)</td> <td> - </tdtr> <td> y (native) </tdtr style="background:#eeeeee;"> <td> More advanced Cocoa IDE (one of its modes doesn't like tabulated source)<[http:/td> </tr>www.uoregon.edu/~koch/texshop/ TeXshop] <tr/td> <td> [[TextMate]] PT </td> <td> C M </td> <td> - Simple TeX IDE for OSX. [[ConTeXt_Minimals/Mac_Installation#TeXShop_installation_and_configuration|Old Configuration instructions]] </td> <td/tr> S </tdtr> <td> T [https://www.texstudio.org/ TeXstudio] </td> <td> U PST </td> <td> ?LMW </td> <td> Extensive, memory-hungry LaTeX IDE. Too LaTeX-centered to be really helpful for ConTeXt.</td> <td/tr> - </tdtr style="background:#eeeeee;"> <td> - [[Textadept]]</td> <td> y (native)CT </td> <td> LMW </td> <td> The ConTeXt bundle is not yet in support files come with the ConTeXt distribution, but you can download a copy at [http:in directory <tt>texmf-context/context/dl.contextgarden.netdata/supporttextadept</context-tmbundle.dmg]tt>.</td> </tr> <tr style="background:#eeeeee;"> > <td> [[Notepad++TextMate]] </td> <td> C </td> <td> M </td> <td>S </td><td>T The ConTeXt bundle is not in the distribution, but you can download a copy from [https://github.com/pgundlach/context.tmbundle/ GitHub]. </td> <td/tr>U </tdtr style="background:#eeeeee;"> <td>2 [http://www.textpad.com/ TextPad]</td> <td>+ CT </td> <td> W </td> <td>y Commercial; TeX/ConTeXt/LaTeX command library; configurable to run a whatever-TeX command as a tool</td> <td> </tdtr> <tr> <td> Npp is one of the most powerful and useful text editors around. For Windows users (you can also use it under Wine) wanting a more modern interface with loads of included features (see especially the TextFX menu), it deserves a close look[http://www.tug. org/texworks/ TeXWorks]</td> </tr><trtd> <td> [http://kate-editor.org Kate] 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/tddata/texworks</tt>.</td> S </tdtr> <tr style="background:#eeeeee;"> <td> ? [[Vim]] </td> <td> U CT2 </td> <td> - (KDE3) / 2 (KDE4) <td> + LMW </td> <td> y </td> <td> y </td> <td> y </td> <td> Kate is an advanced multi-document text Extremely powerful & highly configurable text editor. It operates in different "modes": you type in text in "insert mode" and pass commands to the editor for KDE (KWrite is in the same package, but handles only single documents). It has already built-in LaTeX syntax highlighting, but "normal mode." Whether you can install prefer Vim or emacs is a [http://kde-filesreligious question of the highest importance.org</contenttd> </show.php/ConTeXt+-+Syntax+Highlighting?content=54006 file that provides ConTeXt syntax highlight]. It is planned to be included in the Kate package itself in the (near) future though.tr> <tr> </tr><tr style="background:#eeeeee;"> <tdtd> [http://kilewww.sourceforgewinedt.net Kilecom/ WinEdt] </td> <td> C T </td> <td> P W </td> <td> S </td><td> T </td><td> U </td><td> - Shareware. A nice, configurable Windows editor for LaTeX. A large collection of buttons with Greek letters and other (math) symbols is very helpfulp when typesetting math. It also has spell checker. LaTeX users can also find many templates (KDE3tables, enumerations, ...) and compiling/ 2 (KDE4) previewing the documents by clicking a button. This is supported for ConTeXt also. You can configure it easily.</td><td> + </tdtr> <td> y </tdtr style="background:#eeeeee;"> <td> y </td> <td> y </td> <td> Kile is a very advanced KDE-based editor/environment that primarily aims at LaTeX users, but since 2.x it has native ConTeXt support as well.Amongst other advanced features, Kile has to offer project management, inverse and forward TEX<->DVI search, side tree view of the document structure (e.g. by chapters, sections etc.), insertion of TeX and ConTeXt commands, insertion of symbols. </tr><tr> <td> [http://smultron.sourceforge.net/ Smultron]</td> <td> - </td><td> P </td><td> S </td><td> T </td><td> - </td><td> - </td><td> - </td> <td> - </td> <td> - </td> <td> y </td> <td> [[ConTeXt_Minimals/Mac_Installation#Smultron_installation_and_configuration|Configuration instructions]] </td> </tr> <tr style="background:#eeeeee;"> <td>[http://www.tug.org/texworks/ TeXWorks]</td> <td> </td><td> P </td><td> S </td><td> T </td><td> U </td><td> </td><td> </td> <td> (y) </td> <td> y </td> <tdcolspan="4"> y </td> <td> </td> </tr> </table>

'''featuresFeatures/OSs:''' * C = TeX/ConTeXt syntax highlighting (and perhaps command completion )

* S = [[SyncTeX]] support (synchronising between text in PDF and TeX/ConTeXt syntax highlighting source)

* U = Unicode (UTF-8) handling* 2 = bidirectional edit editing (right-to-left)* + = more…

== Other editors == The following (Probably more editors have no specific ConTeXt support, but do a good job for generic (La)TeX typesetting, so you may use them for ConTeXt as well:<table> <tr style="background:#cccccc;"> <td> Editor </td> <td colspan="7"> features </td> <td> Linux </td> <td> Win </td> <td> MacOS X </td> <td> Remarks </td> </tr><tr style="background:#eeeeee;"> <td> [http://www.nano-editor.org/ GNU nano] </td> <td> </td> <td> </td> <td> S </td> <td> </td> <td> U </td> <td> ? </td> <td> </td> <td> y </td> <td> y </td> <td> y </td> <td> Curses-based text editor for Unix C and Unix-like systems, designed to be a free replacement for the Pico text editor. Has basic TeX syntax highlighting. </td> </tr><tr> <td> [http://gedit.sourceforge.net/ gedit] </td> <td> </td> <td> </td> <td> S </td> <td> </td> <td> U </td> <td> ? </td> <td> </td> <td> y </td> <td> - </td> <td> y (X11) </td> <td> GNOME editor </td> </tr><tr style="background:#eeeeee;"> <td> [http://freshmeat.net/projects/klat/ klat] </td> <td> </td><td> </td><td> S </td><td> T </td><td> U </td><td> ? </td><td> </td> <td> y </td> <td> - </td> <td> y (X11) </td> <td> KDE editor, based on Kate </td> </tr><tr> <td> [http://www.winedt.com/ WinEdt]</td> <td> - </td><td> - </td><td> S </td><td> T </td><td> U </td><td> - </td><td> - </td> <td> - </td> <td> y </td> <td> - </td> <td> A nice, configurable Windows editor, very suitable for newbies to (La)TeX. A large collection of buttons with Greek letters and other (math) symbols is very helpfulp when typesetting math. It also has spell checker, but no support for UTF yet.<br> LaTeX users can also find many templates (tables, enumerations, ...) and compiling/previewing the documents by clicking a button. This is supported For ConTeXt also. You can configure it easily.<br>''(WinEdt is not free software, but shareware with 31+ days trial.)''</td> </tr><tr style="background:#eeeeee;"> <td> [http://freshmeat.net/projects/nedit NEdit]</td> <td> - </td><td> - </td><td> S </td><td> - </td><td> - </td><td> - </td><td> - </td> <td> y </td> <td> y </td> <td> ? </td> <td>X server (Cygwin/Xorg) is needed to run Nedit on Windows</td> </tr><tr> <td> [[TeXnicCenter]]</td> <td> - </td><td> P </td><td> S </td><td> - </td><td> - </td><td> - </td><td> - </td> <td> - </td> <td> y </td> <td> - </td> <td> Oriented towards the use of LaTeX, but can also be used for processing ConTeXt documents. A large collection of buttons with Greek letters and other (math) symbols is very helpfulp when typesetting math. It also has spell checker.<br /> LaTeX users can also find many templates (tables, enumerations, ...) and compiling/previewing the documents by clicking a button.<br />''(TeXnicCenter is freely available under GPL).''</td> </tr><tr style="background:#eeeeee;"> <td> [http://www.textpad.com/ TextPad]</td> <td> - </td> <td> - </td> <td> S </td> <td> T </td> <td> U </td> <td> ? </td> <td> + </td> <td> - </td> <td> y </td> <td> - </td> <td> Commercial; TeXt/ConTeXt/LaTeX command library; configurable to run a whatever-TeX command as a tool</td> </tr></table> == SyncTeX == For synchronising between text in PDF and TeX source see [[SyncTeX]]./td>