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Isn't it time for everyone to move on to TeXmacs, not only for WYSIWYG editing of scientific/math documents, but also for note taking and even programming?

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What would the incentive be for a current emacs user? It's hard to imagine giving up org-mode would ever be worthwhile personally.

Yeah. I liked it when I used it, but it's not actually an emacs replacement in a general sense. There's a much smaller community and set of extensions (plug-ins in their term, packages in emacs). It was pleasant to use as a notebook front-end with Maxima and Octave when I used them.

Maybe someone could write a WYSIWYG org-mode for TeXmacs.

TeXmacs is amazing but has been staying in a relative obscurity for some reason. It could be a great tool for the so-called literal programming. (Curiously, TeXmacs has little to do with TeX or emacs.)

Is it? First time I've ever heard of it, although looking at it I must say I am intrigued. What would you say are its main positive features?

It's currently an amazing way to write math/science documents in a truly WYSIWYG editor.

ok. that looks interesting. will try, do you think there are any downsides in trying to use this as a general purpose programming environment?

edit: whoa - you mean I can't use normal emacs cursor movement? no thanks, emacs for me is all about no menus and no modality.

TeXmacs for programming?!

If you do literate programming or work with a REPL, sure.

https://www.nongnu.org/fangle/examples/hello-world.pdf

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