![]() LyX is rock-solid stable, on the other hand (and has fewer "gotchas" due to its lack of WYSYWIG). Way too crash-happy, on both Debian and Windows systems. I mapped: citation-insert to Ctrl+Alt+C href-insert to Ctrl+K label-insert to Ctrl+Alt+L statistics to Ctrl+Alt+T. ![]() I would love if TeXmacs improves, or has improved, but I absolutely can't recommend it for serious work. Under Tools / preferences / Editing / Shortcuts / Stackoverflow question on how to find the command name for a shortcut. I found a particularly nasty case where just changing the type of header (chapter, sub-chapter, etc) crashed TeXmacs and caused all further attempts to open the file to crash the program immediately. And then there was the fact that it was super-easy to crash and lose all your work in an instant. Finding crap in the toolbars and menu was obtuse, or even what all the keyboard shortcuts were. Useful keyboard shortcuts: CTRL+SHIFT+Space - inserts small vertical space. You will learn more and more key bindings and short-cut keys as you use LyX, because most actions will prompt a small message in the status bar at the. TeXmacs fails at usability right off the bat, even being unfamiliar to those used to Emacs keyboard chords (it's sort of implied in the name to be for that use-case), and I found it a little better after changing it to a CUA mode (I think it was called "GNOME Look and Feel"?). Let's grant that the last time I tried to put TeXmacs into serious use was two years ago, but I don't see indicators much of it would have changed. I really do wish I could agree, but sadly I cannot.
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