Dear TextMate users
TextMate's LaTeX.bundle is really nice, but there is one thing that bothers me when editing LaTeX documents with hard line wraps.
Reformatting a paragraph (with Crtl + q) does not behave the way I would expect. Emacs is very smart when reformatting paragraphs in LaTeX and I would love to see some of these features in TextMate too:
* currently reformatting an equation or figure environment messes up the layout completely * section titles should be kept on a distinct line and moved within the text * reformatting paragraphs that are commented should adjust the line length and keep the paragraph commented * putting a single % character at the beginning of a line divides a paragraph into 'reformatting units'. When reformatting a paragraph, the reformatting operation does not cross these % boundaries * no reformatting should occur in math environments
In summary, reformatting should adjust the line-length but respect LaTex commands and environments.
It looks like the LaTeX mode currently does not provide LaTeX specific reformatting, but uses standard plain text reformatting.
Would it be difficult to change the behaviour? I assume that implementing smart Emacs-like LaTeX reformatting requires the bundle's grammar to provide a specific scope for marking the unit of text (i.e. a paragraph) that should be subject to the reformatting operation, e.g. text.tex.paragraph.
Does anyone have an idea, how to implement this?
Best regards, Christian
-- Christian Plessl christian@plesslweb.ch http://plesslweb.ch