This feature is indeed very useful, but unfortunately it doesn’t work for me, so if you know how to fix it, I would be really grateful for any hint. It very powerful and besides aforementioned code formatting, highlighting and compiling it also supports various macros for insertion of code snippets and in-line preview of figures, e.g. Aquamacs comes with Emacs package for LaTeX editing - AUCTeX. Instead, cmd+o, as it is usual on Mac, works. Aquamacs is nice because it supports modern keyboard shortcuts, so you don’t have to press ctrl+foo, ctrl+foo, ctrl+bar, ctrl+foo to open a file:-). Auto-indentation and document re/formatting also works pretty well. For instance, sections have larger fonts, italics is really italics, bold is really bold. Finally, I overcome my many-years long resistance to Emacs (I had always been a Vim user:-)) and installed Aquamacs.Īfter opening the first TeX file (a Beamer presentation), I was really impressed by the quality of syntax highlighting. I opened a file which compiled in TeXMaker in it and it didn’t get compiled. Then I started to think about buying some editor, because it seemed there’s no good free one. It is in terms of user friendliness but the document preview (compilation and opening of a PDF file) is unbelievably slow. I cannot say that I don’t like it but it is rather simple, so the next one I tried was TeXMaker, which I had already tried couple of years ago and hadn’t used because of (for me) unintuitive user interface.
This distribution directly contains editor called TeXShop. The installation was pretty straightforward so there’s no point to elaborate about it. PDF viewer auto-reloading the file after each recompileįirst thing I installed was a distribution of TeX Live for Mac - MacTeX.In Ubuntu, I used to use gEdit with its LaTeX plugin, TeX Live distribution and Gnome PDF viewer, so the minimal requirements for my new environment were: I recently switched from Linux to Mac OS X and one of the first things I needed to set up was LaTeX environment.