Anyone experienced crixet.com?

[Thomas Franz Mueller]

Hello lovely LaTeX editors!

I stumbled over a new editor called crixet (https://crixet.com) while looking for an alternative from overleaf (when it was down it got me into serious troubles).

Currently looking for someone who has experience with it (seems in beta and some people might have gotten access already) and see if this is actually something for me or not. 

Thanks so much for the help. 

Best, 
Thomas

[Peter Flynn]

Oh dear.

..."use AI"...

I'll pass, thanks.

Peter

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[Thomas Franz Mueller]

haha, yeah everything somehow has AI. I'm horrible at LaTeX and learning slow, it helps me to use chatGPT to learn new code and get stuff explained, but I want to know it by heart as well. 

[Thomas Franz Mueller]

May I ask Peter, what's your go to setup, and why? Everyone seems to use overleaf, but it's so bad... 

[Peter Flynn]

On 11/03/2025 13:53, Thomas Franz Mueller wrote:
> haha, yeah everything somehow has AI.

This will not end well.

> I'm horrible at LaTeX and learning slow,

I wrote _Formatting Information_ to try and help with this:

https://latex.silmaril.ie/formattinginformation/

but it means *reading* and that takes time and energy.

> it helps me to use chatGPT to learn new code and get stuff explained,

I've never tried, but I suspect it works for a few cases. I have seen
some answers that were so hopelessly wrong I don't know how it could
ever have thought they were right.

> but I want to know it by heart as well.

That is good too.

> May I ask Peter, what's your go to setup,

I have only ever used TeX installed on a desktop or laptop (and now even
on my phone¹ 😎 I have used Overleaf to try out but I can't stand
systems that try to tell me what to do, and have absolutely no clue what
I actually want.

I use Emacs as my editor because I use it for everything else (it has a
mode for everything including LaTeX), so it saves me having to learn one
editor to do one thing and another to do something else, and yet another
to do something more...etc. One Editor is the easiest way IMNSHO.

> and why?

Just the way I started, I guess. Long ago, long before the web or online
editing.²

> Everyone seems to use overleaf, but it's so bad...

Most users seem to say they like it, but perhaps that's because they
have not had the opportunity to use anything else. The collaborative
mode is excellent, I have to say: you simply cannot reliably do that if
you have your own installation. Fortunately I don't have to co-author.

Peter
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¹ On Android, you can install Termux, which gives you an almost-complete
version of Linux in your phone, including the ability to install
software from their repositories just like any other Linux, including
texlive-full and texlive-fonts-extra. You do need space, though :-)

² Actually in Emacs you can open a file on another machine over the
Internet. If I have access to a file abc.tex on (say) wolf.mit.edu I can
click C-x C-f and type /ftp:user...@wolf.mit.edu:texdocs/abc.tex RET
and give my password, and the file opens in my local window as if I was
a user sitting in MIT, so I can edit, run LaTeX, and even print
(assuming privs, natch).

[Thomas Franz Mueller]

Thanks for the detailed response. 

Over the night I got access to crixet and I must say I like it. I used to run VSCode locally and used VIM to edit my files. }
All of that works on crixet and you can even turn of AI totally, which is cool I think. 

The comments, collaboration feature seem to be a lot smoother than on overleaf which is what I will need a lot. So far so good, I will try to get my co-authors on it and see if it runs any smooth. Wondering how long it will be free, or what kind of things will be paid features (I hope nothing I need, haha)

[Thomas Franz Mueller]

They seem to have a sense of humor. 🤣