[texworks] auto completion

[Stefan Löffler]

Hi,

On 2011-04-03 09:51, Andreas Hirsch wrote:
> quoting Suresh Kumar, [03.04.2011 07:32 +0100]:
>> Hi
>> Much to my surprise I found that it is possible to do auto completion like
>> in eclipse by configuring texworks. I found some scripts installed already
>> in my linux machine which contains the line:
>>
>> bali:=\begin{align}#RET##INS##RET#\end{align}•
>>
>> What is this last big size bullet?
> It is intended to reach the next editing point via <ctrl><tab>

Exactly. For more information, see
http://code.google.com/p/texworks/wiki/CodeCompletion
The easiest way of inputting it will probably be copy/paste.

> I have a related question:
>
> Where ist a predifined completition for
>
> bite:=\begin{itemize}#RET#\item#RET##INS##RET#\end{itemize}•
>
> which expands to
>
> \begin{itemize}
> \item
>
> \end{itemize}•
>
> I would like to have it modified to
>
> \begin{itemize}
> \item
> \end{itemize}
> •
>
> and tried therefore bit:=\begin{itemize}#RET#\item
> #INS#\end{abstract}#RET# •
>
> which expands to the same as the original - or is it due to the fact
> that I could not override the predefined fils?

Yes, overriding it should be possible. The file where this is defined is
<resources>/completion/tw-latex.txt [1]. Note that there are two
entries, though: one for "bite", and one for "\bite". Maybe this causes
some confusion.
BTW: your alternative definition seems flawed (\end{abstract}, for one
thing), but I assume that's for testing only.

HTH
Stefan

[1] The location of the resources folder is system-dependent. See
http://code.google.com/p/texworks/wiki/TipsAndTricks#Locating_and_customizing_TeXworks_resources