[OS X TeX] I'm done with TeXShop as my main editor

[Matthieu Masquelet]

I'm sorry if my mail sounded like it was a big blow to TeXShop. I have
tried to use TeXShop for a while now, trying various "workflows" or
improvements (like that vi input manager that I probably don't know
how yo use properly because to me it really does nothing efficiently)
and while it is a great piece of software (I'll still be using it for
review and minor corrections, just not for major editing), it just
does not feel right to me. And so I just wanted to suggest another
piece of software which is probably widely used in the TeX community
but maybe not as publicized as TeXShop. The net result is that we had
some feedback from more experienced users (I'm still a student...)
about how to improve this "workflow" and so I think it's a good thing
in the end. I apologize if I hurt any TeXShop feelings in the process.
This was not my intention.

Regards,

On 12/7/06, Paul Smyth <psmythirl at mac.com> wrote:
> I'm finding it a bit annoying the negativity being displayed on this
> list towards certain pieces of software. First we have Gerhardt
> castigating i-Installer et. al. Now we have this thread. I use
> TeXShop and find it eminently suitable for my purposes. Ok,  you
> prefer VI or Vim or whatever. Why tell us about if if not to imply
> that that there is something difficient about TeXShop. I'm sure the
> rest of us don't care what software you use. The tone of your subject
> line alone is quite dismissive of TeXShop. The problem is that with
> this kind of negativity towards something like TeXShop the guys that
> write and maintain it will justly feel they are wasting their time
> and quite possibly give up. We've already had this situation happen
> once recently on this list. I for one do not want to see that happen.
>
> Paul Smyth
>
> On 7 Dec 2006, at 08:11, Matthieu Masquelet wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I can't believe I didn't find this before... Just found out about the
> > 'atchange' perl script which does everything I want when I'm just
> > writing my research log or draft of papers. I can go back to vi where
> > I'm definitely much faster than on TeXShop and then everytime I save
> > my .tex, the 'atchange' script launches the same TeXShop scripts
> > before opening my doc in Preview... Sure when reviewing documents
> > (especially with multiple input .tex files like my thesis), TeXShop
> > better synchronization will be useful but as a main editor, I'm sort
> > of glad to be back on vi. Just wanted to share my happiness :) Is
> > anybody else using this? I can't recall any recent mention of it on
> > this list...
> >
> > Regards,
> >
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> > Matthieu Masquelet
> > Georgia Institute of Technology
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