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[Kevin Godby <godbyk@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hello, Patrick.

On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 6:21 AM, Patrick Dickey <pdickeybeta@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> In a couple of threads, people were discussing GUI-based editors for tex
> files. If you've got Wine installed, you can install Notepad ++ and it
> supports LaTeX highlighting. The only issue you might run into is
> whether it uses the same carriage returns (Unix or DOS) as the rest of
> the manual (but I honestly don't think that's an issue).
>
> If you want to check it out, you can find it at
> http://notepad-plus-plus.org/

Is there a benefit to using Notepad++ versus a Linux-based text editor
or LaTeX IDE?

(It just seems like a lot of hoops to jump through in order to edit a
text file.)

—Kevin