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Re:The Guile in TeXmacs (2019) [pdf] by akdor1154 on Thursday April 16, 2020 @06:54AM (#22888126)
Seconded. It's a really lovely designed piece of software. it's possibly the only WYSIWYG editor that I prefer to use over the code-based alternative.

edit: the bugs are real though, no denying that.

Re:The Guile in TeXmacs (2019) [pdf] by mgubi on Thursday April 16, 2020 @07:54AM (#22888464)
We are striving to fix most of the big problems before releasing version 2.1 (hopefully this year). Please report the bugs/crashes. Only in this way we can improve it.
Re:The Guile in TeXmacs (2019) [pdf] by akdor1154 on Saturday April 18, 2020 @10:53PM (#22913098)
Now I've got you - The biggest issue I have with texmacs is how difficult it is to interact with the community.

Your mailing list archive is not indexed by google (except for the narkive version, where search is broken) so answered questions are generally not visible to new users.

The default search in the list archive only searches a single month, this is useless. Searching multiple months is non-obvious.

Some project-deaf suggestions from this outsider are:

- put your lists on Google Groups so they are easily searchable and findable for new users

- just put the damn thing on GitHub and use their Issues system (or GitLab or at least something that isn't Savannah).

It might be a bit annoying for current project members to get the hang of it but I think, in 2020, it is very difficult to grow and show off a community that's based on GNU Savannah!

Re:The Guile in TeXmacs (2019) [pdf] by mgubi on Monday April 20, 2020 @09:46AM (#22923750)
I can agree on the mailing, I will discuss your remarks with the other developers. We are trying to support also other "community platforms", so we have now a forum:

http://forum.texmacs.cn

a Gitter room:

https://gitter.im/texmacs/Lobby

and a GitHub mirror here:

https://github.com/texmacs/texmacs

where you can post PR. As for Bugs we prefer the savannah bug tracker but if you post something on GitHub we will take it in consideration too.