Hi — Answwrs lus a question embedded below On 8 Oct 2009, at 02:23, Alex Ross wrote:
As some of you know I've been working off and on on a new LaTeX bundle. It started as an extension bundle “LaTeXtra” but lately I've been focusing on merging that code into a fork of the LaTeX bundle (http://github.com/alexross/latex.tmbundle).
One of my biggest gripes with the current bundle is that there are MANY ways to do things. For instance there are 3-4 ways to insert a new environment, each with different key combinations that I cannot remember. There is a lot of room for simplification.
Simplification will require the removal of some commands, but I'm sure there is at least one person using each command. What I'd like is to get an idea of how people generally use the bundle. So, if you use the LaTeX bundle, please reply!
- What typesetting engine do you typically use? (ie. pdflatex,
xelatex, pdflualatex, etc …)
pdflatex and about to experiment with xelatex
- PDF Viewer? (Skim.app, Preview.app, …)
TeXShop
- Do you use any of the completion commands? Which ones? What sort
of LaTeX macros do you commonly complete?
enum<tab> desc<tab> item<tab>
<Cmnd>{
- Do you use any of the snippets?
I use lots of my own
- What commands (besides ⌘R) do you use the most often?
Never use <Cmnd>R — I use TeXShop to run the job
- Anything that you'd miss terribly if it was removed?
In the last few weeks exact time unknown) the LaTeX bundle/environment seems to be behaving differently
(1) $ now gets ( ) (2) <Ctrl>$ seems to wrap the previous word in $$ (3) How do I now get $ in text mode ? (in two keystrokes or less?)
The above behaviour doesn't seem to correspond to the documentation (I'm running TextMate 1.5.8 (1509)
It looks like the middle of a transition --- I also have the bundles LaTeX Experimental, LaTeXtra (don't remember installing those) and my own local LaTeX bundle for my snippets.
Many thanks for addressing the LaTeX bundle --- as you say, there are many ways of doing the same thing & it seems to easy to loose items (I suspect that Spaces is shadowing the <Ctrl>4 that should have got me $)
Am I right in thinking that there have been some changes in the last couple of weeks ?
Phil
Thanks for your time!
—Alex
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