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A few posts back, I mentioned that I was going to try switching from vim to emacs again (editor switching being something I do on a regular basis for a variety of reasons), so as to have a go at a new collaborative editing gadget
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The main advantage of AUCTeX seems to be the visualisation stuff. I've noticed that simply typing $A_b$ will render the "b" in half size subscript - and it's still editable. And yes, preview mode is fantastic -- allowing me to check precisely what the formula I'm writing renders to by typing C-c C-p C-p. So far as I know, the best vim will do is launch an external dvi viewer to look at the last compilation of your whole document.
Looking at the website, the advantage of the vim suite seems to be the package structure. Vim will notice when you type \usepackage{blah}, and will load up the appropriate widgets to assist you to use blah. That's pretty cool.
Now the AUCTeX features page says:
Support for macros and environments of many TeX/LaTeX packages with the use of style files.
Which doesn't sound so impressive - but I won't know what it actually does until I've had cause to use some packages. Which so far, I haven't. The website-claims do look better thought out for the vim version of this feature, at least.
Aside from that, I think they both basically do the same stuff - within the ethos of their respective editors.
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