[texworks] autcompletion behaviour

[Herbert Schulz]

On Oct 17, 2010, at 10:22 AM, Herbert Schulz wrote:

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> On Oct 17, 2010, at 9:58 AM, Matthias Pospiech wrote:
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>> Am 17.10.2010 14:21, schrieb Herbert Schulz:
>>> On Oct 17, 2010, at 3:32 AM, Andreas Hirsch wrote:
>>>> ...
>>>> Personally I'm missing things like autocomplete enviroment etc much more.
>>> 
>>> Have you tried Command Completion? Put `bite' at the start of a line and press Tab. (On the Mac Opt-Tab takes you to and selects the next Mark [•] --- some other key on other systems.) See the TeXworks Manual for more information.
>> That is not autocompletetion, it is a nice feature, but really it is an additional set of commands to learn. And without reading the manual impossible to discover.
>> If I insert "\begin{item" it is completed, that is fine. But "\begin{" gives me "\begin{array}\end{array}". That is not ok, since I did not want array.
>> I could not find any way to define the autocompletion results in the case of many completions. Here I would prever the behaviour of kile/texmaker(x).
>> Btw does tw make use of the completion list from kile (cwl files)?
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>> Matthias
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> Howdy,
> 
> Did you try
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> \begin{ite and Tab? Just put in the start of the environment you want and Tab. The abbreviations are fairly simple `b' starts all environments (for \begin) and the rest is typically a few leading letters of the environment name (bite, benu, etc.). Additional presses of Tab will choose the next match which is typically a variation of the basic environment.
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> TW, whose interface is modelled after TeXShop on the Mac, uses the original CommandCompletion.txt file introduced for that front end.
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> Good Luck,
> 
> Herb Schulz
> (herbs at wideopenwest dot com)
> 

Howdy,

One other thing... If you want to add more environments, change ones that are there, change the order in which they are found, etc., you need only edit the tw-latex.txt file. (I called it CommandCompletion.txt before --- that's used by TeXshop.)

Good Luck,

Herb Schulz
(herbs at wideopenwest dot com)