Re: Is GUB consistent across platforms?

[Jan Nieuwenhuizen]

Graham Percival writes:

> I'm looking at the tutorial now; specifically the "first steps" thing.
> Does GUB provide the same functionality across platforms?

No, unfortunately not.

> In OSX, there's a simple text editor, a compile (typeset file) and a
> compile (update syntax).  You must save the file before compiling
> it.

That is OSX-specific.  IWBN if this functionality were rewritten in py-gtk,
so that we could indeed share it between all GUB builds.

> Is that the same on windows and Linux?  If it is, I can simply the
> manual.

On Windows there is a specific point-and-click compile and edit
implementation, with minimal functionality.  On Linux there is
nothing, I'm not sure if we still support emacs/point-and-click.  We
used to support drag and drop in with the autopackages, but we haven't
had any complaints of dropping that.

Jan.

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