mailing-list for TeXmacs Users

[Lionel Elie Mamane <address@hidden>]

On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 01:47:01PM +0200, Henri Lesourd wrote:

> As far as the users I know react, the main problems (stated using
> an approximate order of importance) are :

> -> The emacs "chords" (i.e. keyboard shortcuts),
>   which become more and more unknown & unintuitive
>   for new users,

On the other hand, they are not emacs-like _enough_ for emacsies like
me.

The main usability problems I have are:

 - When I press a key, the action is sometimes taken twice instead of
   once.

 - The "search doesn't find all occurrences" bug. I use grep / less /
   emacs to search in a tm document.

 - In my opinion, the biggest failure of TeXmacs (in my use) is that I
   resort to using ... emacs ... to edit the .tm file to do some
   operations that I can't figure out how to do in TeXmacs itself. A
   prime example - that not only I, but also my not so hacker
   colleagues (and I mean it: I wouldn't be sure they'd be able to
   write a for loop in /bin/sh) encountered - is to take a subtree of
   the document and place a node as the father of this subtree.

   For example, I have the text "a [+] b" in the document. I want to
   replace this with (in LaTeX notation) "$a [+] b$". Yes, I _just_
   want to put this in math mode. Couldn't find a way didn't involve
   retyping the string "a [+] b".

-- 
Lionel