LaTeX Document Editing on OS X

On Mac OS X, the most common app for LaTeX documenting is using TeXShop.

You edit, save, compile, and the PDF version of the text appears next to the TeXShop application window.

BibTeX files need to be open separately with TeXShop and need to be compiled separately.

You manage your LaTeX project on Finder.

Here is a somewhat geeky way of LaTeX documenting:

With Eclipse IDE.

All the files are centrally managed by the IDE, and when you save after editing, everything compile is done automatically.

BibTeX file can be open and viewed on the same IDE window.

PDF file is updated every time after compile when you view it by the Preview (don't know about Acrobat Reader).

And even more, it's so nice to manage the LaTeX project combined with any version control system like Git, Mercurial, SVN, CVS, etc.

The IDE integrates the version control of the documentation project so nicely so that it can be viewed also in the same IDE window.

And it's OS independent, as Eclipse IDE is, so that the same environment for every OS.

You need to install TeXlipse plugin for Eclipse IDE, and need some configurations to use Eclipse for LaTeX documenting.

To integrate the version control with it, any version control plugin for Eclipse IDE should be installed.