Best LaTeX Editor [closed]

What's the best LaTeX editor you've used, and what would you recommend someone read to understand and become proficient with authoring papers/books in LaTeX?


Emacs has excellent support for LaTeX. Look for the AUCTeX package. I never got the hang of LyX admittedly, but maybe it has improved since I last tried it.

And just to brag a little I have seen Donald Knuth using Emacs with my very own eyes:-)


For my latest work I used TeXnicCenter. It is pretty powerful, but also a bit complex to understand in the beginning ...