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WinEdt in Action: Snapshots

WinEdt's overall appearance depends on your Windows and selected Themes, and on the way you want to customize WinEdt's own colors and background schemes. Below are a few examples of WinEdt 6.0 on Windows XP (Silver Theme)...

WinEdt in Action as TeX Editor

Note the drop-down menu in the button that starts TeX; the default compiler can be changed. This instance uses a (default) 2-row toolbar and has background schemes and effects (gradient background for special environments, right margin and current line) enabled. It is easy to enable or disable such effects through the Options Interface (Highlighting). TeX was executed in WinEdt's Console (bottom panel).

Notice auto-delimiter matching in action. Line Numbers have been displayed for visual feedback (in the default settings the shortcut Ctrl+= toggles the visibility of the line numbers)...

GUI Page Control (TeX Symbols)

WinEdt provides a special GUI Page Control containing almost 500 buttons associated with TeX symbols. The control and its contents are user customizable.:

This example briefly illustrates WinEdt's spell-checking ability. Right-clicking an a misspelled word brings up the Suggestions Dialog.

The commands Check Word (Shift+Enter) and Complete Word (Ctrl+Enter) in the Tools menu are real life-savers. Note that misspelled words are (by default) highlighted in red and underlined. This auto-spelling functionality can be turned off by clicking on the Spell panel in the status line. The same applies to other panels in the status line: they respond to mouse clicks!

In particular, WinEdt supports standard (LINE) mode copy, cut and paste operations as well as Block (Column) selection mode. This can come in handy if you want to manipulate columns of data: selection mode can be toggled by clicking on the LINE panel in the status line. Note that choosing the Block Mode selection temporarily disables auto-wrapping and enables the "free caret interface". After you are finished with the Block Selection Mode you should restore the default behavior (click on the Block Panel to restore the "standard" LINE selection mode).

WinEdt in Action as HTML Editor

Below is an example of customized WinEdt working on its web pages. Note non-standard background, variable width font (Verdana 10) enabled for HTML mode and fixed right margin. WinEdt's Options Interface can be used to make modifications like this:

The Options Interface is displayed on top of the Tree/ Navigation Bar Control. It's Visibility can be toggled through Options Menu...

In the example above you can observe WinEdt using its "Find in Files" feature in order to collect Regular Expression \src="*" in its web pages.

Customized WinEdt

Default settings do not showcase all that WinEdt is capable of (some users might find it too much). Below is an example sent to me by a seasoned user that customized WinEdt (on Windows 7) to his liking:

Here is what Hector had to say about this image:

This screenshot shows the menu item "Extras" that contains some shortcuts. The toolbar is minimalistic. Those are good features but the real gem is the variable-width font. It makes reading LaTeX quite pleasant.

If you customized WinEdt and would like to show it "in action" let me know and I will consider including more images like this!

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