New to Mac: Which text editor should I use for LaTeX?

By Rasgueo, 10 July, 2023

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Hello, software engineering student here. I've had the Mac for less than a week now and I'm trying to set up my usual working environment.
Can someone recommend a text editor to write LaTeX? I downloaded TextMate for coding in Python but I still haven't gotten around to playing with it.
Should I use it for LaTeX as well? Any better recommendations?

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Try vscode's latex workshop extension

Hi! Try vscode's latex workshop extension, I haven't really used it that much since I wrote things in Markdown when needed, but it seems like this extension is not bad.

Thank you both

I've got both VSCode and TextMate installed, I'll play around to see which one I like better.

TeXShop

TeXShop appears to be quite accessible and was recommended at one point by another VoiceOver user. It is included in MacTeX.

If you're an Emacs user or a Vim user, as I am, though mostly under Linux, there are extensions available for working with LaTeX documents. Emacs and Vim can be obtained for MacOS from HomeBrew. If you want to use Emacspeak, there's a speech server for MacOS, which I haven't tried - again, I tend to use it under Linux rather than on the Mac. However, there are users comfortably working with Emacspeak on the Mac.