[texhax] What program can I use to edit TeX files?

Uwe Lück uwe.lueck at web.de
Sat Mar 23 15:08:27 CET 2013


Am Samstag, den 23.03.2013, 05:11 -0400 schrieb Jerry:
> On Sat, 23 Mar 2013 02:45:05 +0100
> Reinhard Kotucha articulated:
> > On 2013-03-22 at 07:24:24 -0400, Jerry wrote:
> >  > On Fri, 22 Mar 2013 02:05:06 +0100
> >  > Reinhard Kotucha articulated:
> >  > > BTW, it's strange to see that if someone doesn't mention the OS
> >  > > he's using, everybody assumes that it's Windows.  And even after
> >  > > you mentioned MacTeX, people suggested to install Windows
> >  > > binaries.  Sigh!  When will Windows users grok that they are not
> >  > > alone in the universe?
> >  > 
> >  > No, not alone, but they do occupy 90% of it therefore assuming a
> >  > Win/32/64 environment is going to be right the majority of the
> >  > time.
> > 
> > Don't know where your "90%" comes from.
> > 
> > At our local TeX meeting in Hannover there are abt. 10 attendees.
> > Only one of them is using Windows, one is using OS X, everybody else
> > is using Linux.
> > 
> > Sorry, I'm not religious.  I only believe in what I can see.  And I
> > see that only 10% of the TeX users are using Windows.
> 
> You are using the statistics for a single program. I was referring to
> the fact that 90% of all PC users, use Windows as their primary
> environment.

Just about statistics: for guessing ("estimating" mathematically) 
a poster's OS on the present list, the statistics for that single 
program are relevant.

Cheers,

    Uwe.




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