Open Error Search Dialog in WinEdt

(Oct 27, 2008)

I closed WinEdt's error dialog at one time and could not find a way to open it again. After spending quite some times, I finally found the way. In WinEdt 5.5, go to Options->Settings. Then, we will see the 'Errors' tab. There are three things we need to check

1. C++ style errors
2. Extended TeX Messages
3. TeX Source Tracking.

Finally, there is another option we have to UNcheck, 'Quick Mode'. When the 'Quick Mode' option is unchecked, error search dialog will work normally.

Texmaker: Free cross-platform LaTeX editor

Sep 15, 2007

Texmaker (http://www.xm1math.net/texmaker/) seems to be a very good LaTex editor tool. I used it once a long time ago. It's pretty impressive, and I think it is better than TeXnicCenter (http://www.texniccenter.org/). The tool has no more update for more than a year). However, Texmaker does not have some cool features in WinEdt such as DVI search.

FYI: DVI search is a feature in WinEdt helping a user to find a portion in DVI document corresponding to a target text in the editor. You can try it by ctrl-shift-s in a WinEdt editor. If your DVI file is open, it will jump to the corresponding text.

FYI: there is a forum about LaTex and its editors at forum http://latex-community.org/. This forum has dedicated sections for TeXnicCenter, Texmaker, and WinEdt. Sounds interesting.