What LaTeX Editor do you suggest for Linux? [closed]

Answer 1

In Linux it's more likely that extensions to existing editors will be more mature than entirely new ones. Thus, the two stalwarts (vi and emacs) are likely to have packages available.

EDIT: Indeed, here's the vi one:

http://vim-latex.sourceforge.net/

... and here's the emacs one:

http://www.gnu.org/software/auctex/

I have to say, I'm a vi man, but the emacs package looks rather spiffy: it includes the ability to embed preview images of formulas in your emacs buffer.

Answer 2

I normally use Emacs (it has everything you need included).

Of course, there are other options available:

• Kile is KDE's LaTeX editor; it's excellent if you're just learning or if you prefer the integrated environment approach;
• Lyx is a WYSIWYG editor that uses LaTeX as a backend; i.e. you tell it what the text should look like and it generates the corresponding LaTeX

Cheers.

Answer 3

Gummi is the best LaTeX editor. It is a free, open source, cross-platform, program, featuring a live preview pane.

http://gummi.midnightcoding.org/

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Answer 4

I use TeXMaker. If you're using Ubuntu, it should be in the apt-get repository. To install texmaker, run:

sudo apt-get install texmaker

Answer 5

There is a pretty good list at linuxappfinder.com.

My personal preference for LaTeX on Linux has been the KDE-based editor Kile.

Answer 6

When I started to use Latex, I used Eclipse with the texlipse plugin. That allowed me to use the same environment in Linux and Windows, has some auto completion features and runs all tools (latex, bibtex, makeindex, ...) automatically to fully build the project.

But now I switched. Eclipse is large and slow on my PCs, crashes often and shows some weird behaviour here and there. Now I use vim for editing and make in collaboration with a self written perl script to build my projects. Using cygwin I am still able to use the same work flows under Linux and Windows.