oreodfw.blogg.se - Text mode in aquamacs

To avoid lines with long lines of text add: (add-hook 'text-mode-hook 'flyspell-buffer) (add-hook 'text-mode-hook 'flyspell-mode) To activate the spell checker in all the text modes:

See the count of lines, words, and characters, in the mode-line.

The easiest way to count the words from a region is:

To set the function key (fn) as control:.

To disable the right option key (I think I needed this to be able to use the subscripts, brackets and the tilde with $\LaTeX$):.

To set the left option key (alt in the Mac keyboard) as meta:.

Thankfully, emacs allows a redefinition of the keys simply by adding a string in its initiation file: Something similar happens with the meta key, which in the Mac keyboard is replaced by the command key, but which emacs doesn't recognize as meta. While the standard keyboard has the control key in its bottom-left part (which makes it easy to press with the side of the hand while the fingers are in the letter keys), the Mac keyboard has the control key next to its bottom-left part, where the function key (fn) is. Other issues that emacs has with the OSX is the default control (c) and meta (M) keys.

To the emacs' initiation file (typically at ~/.emacs). (setq exec-path (append exec-path '("/Library/TeX/texbin"))) You'll have to tell emacs where all the $\TeX$ files are, by adding 1.8 Remove the first 'x' characters of each line of a selected textĪ common issue with emacs and $\LaTeX$, at least when used with an OSX, is that the program has trouble finding the path to the $\TeX$ distribution.1.7 Add a character to each line of a selected text.To change this, put the following command in your. Note that although Skim is supposed to work with Aquamacs emacs "out of the box", the view command (bound to C-c C-v) will instead open Preview. It use does not require loading any packages, just put \synctex=1 in the preamble of your TeX file. Note that the old synchronization technology based on the pdfsync package is now deprecated synctex is much more robust. Skim is also a very good platform for presentations of pdf files created with TeX, for example using the beamer package. Aquamacs emacs is configured to work with Skim as the default, and TeXniscope does not work properly on Intel macintoshes, so Skim is probably a better solution for most people. It is available at Versiontracker and also at. dvi viewers TeXniscope and Skim, and in particularĬan use pdfsync or synctex to synchronize fairly well between the source and typeset files. With Auctex, almost completely preconfigured and ready to go. It is currently under active development and has a lively email discussion group. This is a special version of GNU Emacs built for Mac OS X. The site license may be downloaded from Software Central for free. In Spring 2008, UC Berkeley purchased a site license to TextMate, a multipurpose commercial text editor for Mac OS X. You can download some of the UniX packages using Fink. Since Mac OS X is based on Unix, you can also use any of the above programs. (add-hook 'LaTeX-mode-hook 'turn-on-reftex)Īfter this, AucTeX will automatically start up any time you use a TeX document.įor your home computer, you may need to download these packages.

emacs file (you may not know it's there, but it is), for example with the shell command emacs ~/.emacs & Here are some very useful reference cards for Emacs and AucTeX commands.

This is standard on all Windows operating systems.įor the department computers, probably the best choice is Emacs with AucTeX. Excellent text editor for general purposes, not specific to LaTeX. For students the price is $30.ĮditPad, free version. Free trial for one month, then annoying popups start appearing, asking you to buy the program. Highlights and colors text for the various environments. Limited text coloring for different environments. Very well designed free editor with buttons for compiling into dvi, ps, and pdf. For more than one platform TexMaker (Windows/Mac/Linux)