EmEditor vs TeXworks

EmEditor is a Windows text editor for text and code, including files up to 16 TB or 1,099 billion lines. It supports multi-cursor and column editing, macro recording, Unicode and UTF-8, plus plug-ins and connections to external tools such as compilers, browsers, and HTMLTidy. CSV features include sorting, pivot tables, joins, and frozen headers. A free edition is available, and the 7-day Professional trial becomes Free automatically without charging automatically. The listed Professional subscriptions cost $6 a month or $5 a month billed annually, with the annual plan billed at 60 USD first year. Professional purchases include a 90-day full refund guarantee. Current supported platforms listed are Windows 10, Windows 11, and Windows Server 2019 or later; legacy support includes Windows 8.1 and Windows Server 2012 R2. Home or school personal users may install it on up to five computers, while organizations need a license for each computer where it is installed or accessible.

TeXworks is a free desktop application for authoring TeX, LaTeX and ConTeXt documents on Windows, macOS and GNU/Linux. Its Unicode-based, TeX-aware editor is intended to be accessible to casual and non-technical users, with syntax highlighting, auto-completion, spell-checking, templates, search and replace, and support for multiple encodings. An integrated PDF viewer synchronizes source and preview through SyncTeX. In the 0.6.x series, the viewer also has continuous scrolling, two-page view, text selection and copying, and a ruler. The usual workflow uses pdfTeX or XeTeX to produce PDFs, and DVI output can be configured. Users can configure TeX commands and run BibTeX or Makeindex; scripting support includes QtScript, Lua and Python. Typesetting requires a separate TeX distribution such as TeX Live or MiKTeX. The project lists Windows installers, macOS disk images and GNU/Linux packages. TeXworks is distributed under the GNU General Public License version 2 or any later version at the user's option.