On Nov 5, 2007, at 3:52 AM, Charilaos Skiadas wrote:
Often I will be editing an existing tex file and need to add something like $\Gamma_{\alpha+1}(\sigma)\concat\tau$. This
Have you tried using the "Insert Symbol based on Current Word" command? For instance, instead of typing \ followed by Gamma, you type: G and then press cmd-\ in my case, and it becomes \Gamma.
I make quite heavy use of custom commands that I've defined making it pretty hard to keep all of them as snippets. Besides I find that when I'm typing it's a HUGE slowdown if I have to take stop touch typing and press a control sequence. I could use tab completion but since I tend to create new commands for common functions in particular files this would mean changing snippets for every file (this would be a nice feature but I don't have the time to implement it).
The latex mode should really just work. I should be able to type in textmate the same way I do in a plain tex editor and have it work well and if I can help make that the case I'd like to help..
As you say, it would be quite controversial to replace this, especially thinking of people working with collaborators or on old latex files. I personally have made a set of three commands, kept in a separate grammar, that help me with this:
Great, thanks. These are helpful.
That would probably work in fact. I am puzzled however. This should be slowing you down only if you have many begin-end blocks on the same line, and I don't tend to see that often. What begin-end blocks are you using? If you use the "Insert Environment Based On Current Word" command to generate them, then they will span multiple lines instead.
I'm not using any begin end blocks on most lines (though I do jump in and out of math mode several times and use a bunch of custom commands, often with nested arguments). The reason I felt that these matches would be problematic is that even if they don't actually match ruby (or whatever regex engine is being used) has to check them for a match. Maybe the difference isn't enough to be noticeable but my thinking was that by pinning the begin end statements to the begining of the line we wouldn't be forcing the regex engine to start a new attempted match whenever it encounters a space (and with multiple spaces it might even start backtracking if it doesn't compile down to a DFA).
Anyway thanks for the commands.
Peter