LaTeX Editors/IDEs

Question

What editors/IDEs are available for easing the process of writing TeX/LaTeX documents?

Please state some useful features like code completion, spell checking, building final DVI or PDF files, etc.

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Answer 1

gedit with LaTeX Plugin

Available for: Windows, Mac, Linux
Open Source

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I use gedit, which along with the latex-plugin gives really good LaTeX support. gedit is available for Linux, Windows and Mac OS X. It has a clean interface. Provides: Code Completion, Spell Checking, Syntax Checking and Validation, Outlines, Wizards, BibTeX Integration, Template Editing, User-Defined Snippets and a preconfigured comprehensive build system using rubber.

Answer 2

Scribes

• Available for: Linux
• Free & Open source
• Unicode: Yes
• RTL/BiDi: Yes
• Custom BG/syntax highlighting: Yes (GTK)
• Best feature: customizable templates/snippets (great for quick insertion of figure/table/listing environments, inserting non-ASCII characters for XeTeX users, etc)

Answer 3

Scientific Word

Available for : Windows
Commercial

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Same as Scientific WorkPlace, but without algebra system (therefore the lower price).