I started with TeXworks (+ XeTeX, which both happen to have been created by Jonathan Kew) and I found no reason to change since then. The only slight drawback is that autocomplete support exists but is rudimentary, however it doesn’t bother me that much.
Which editor do you prefer?
VS Code with the LaTeX workshop plugin. Works like a charm. You need to have LaTeX installed in your system
Neovim with vimtex and texlab language server. Learning nvim takes some time, but I made preconfig, which allows to start a bit easier
Plus there’s kickstart.nvim if you want a more general-purpose starting point. I’m actually switching to it as a starting point now, and figuring out how to transfer anything I need from my old vimrc.
I second this. Getting started started takes some effort, but writing in Neovim is such a joy on its own. Especially implementing comments from other people is much faster and if you use git, you can also easily switch back to earlier versions and/or compare your changes.
Vim + TeX Live on Gentoo
Overleaf, because I don’t have to download an application.
I’m basic and just use vim for writing the document and zathura for a PDF reader. Recently started using lualatex over pdflatex for compiling due to some max memory error on a poster with a ton of graphs.
Usually Neovim and
:!tectonic main.tex, nothing fancy. For preview ideally Zathura or Preview on Mac.Also VSCode is quite usable, since there are some pdf preview plugins.
neovim+zathura+lualatex
TeXStudio for the convenience of compiling and managing multi-file projects; (neo)vim for serious work with the tex files.
MiKTeX, because it’s the first one I stumbled upon in high school and I don’t use LaTeX enough to be bothered to optimize my choice of editor.
Nvim. autopair.nvim let’s you autoclose “begin[]” macros. Luasnip let’s you create custom snippets for every macro you use. I also use Emmet LSP for inline svg.
TexStudio, the multi view and jump to source/output is great on big projects. Zotero macro is very helpful. Compile/clean buttons that also work on multi file projects are huge time savers.
I myself use TeXStudio with a texlive-full install. I may switch to something else, but currently it is a convenient setup.
emacs
