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Benito van der Zander

TeXstudio has many open issues:

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TeXstudio is a fully featured LaTeX editor. Our goal is to make writing LaTeX documents as easy and comfortable as possible.

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TeXstudio is a fully featured LaTeX editor. Our goal is to make writing LaTeX documents as easy and comfortable as possible. Some of the outstanding features of TeXstudio are an integrated pdf viewer with (almost) word-level synchronization, live inline preview, advanced syntax-highlighting, live checking of references, citations, latex commands, spelling and grammar. Find out more at our website.

Features

Comfortable Editing

  • Multi-Cursors

Edit multiple positions at the same time. Vertical blocks can even be copied and pasted.

Multi-Cursors

  • Auto completion

Suggests possible LaTeX commands as you type. There is a tooltip help explaining the command.

Completion works also for references and bibliography entries.

Auto completion

  • More than 1000 mathematical symbols

Quick access to more than 1000 mathematical symbols.

Symbols

  • Bookmarks

Use bookmarks to keep references to important places in your text and to navigate there quickly.

Tooltips show a preview of the code position.

Bookmarks

  • Link overlays

Filenames, references and citations turn into links…

Not sure which issues are the most important. Git integration and vim keybindings got many votes, but that is something for experts. The C++/Qt code could need a general cleanup. Many things come from students contributing while they use it for their thesis and later it never gets updated