Dear Harris, Allan, Max, Dan, ...
This weekend's thread is very helpful. Clearly, a lot of thought has gone into it. I wanted to thank Haris for introducing me to the Latex Bundle with his excellent screencasts, and, of course, Allan for making it all possible.
I have an idea of a fix for folding of sections. Whenever I talk a Latex user into trying out TextMate the first response is invariably, "Folding on its own is worth its weight in gold." Yet folding of sections does not work well and I have quit trying to do it. The problem is this: if I create a custom fold for a selection, the fold marks usually vanish when I return to it and edit. I then have to reselect the material which is counter to the TextMate philosophy.
Not many people know this, but Latex permits \begin{section} and \end{section}, instead of \section. If we could type sec, followed by tab, with the following outcome:
\begin{section}{section name}\label{sec:section_name} \end{section}
instead of the current
\section{section name}\label{sec:section_name}
then all would be well. The tabs would be correctly placed and folding would work as it should for sections. I realize this is nonstandard and journals might not like it, but a quick search and replace could restore this to the standard. Of course, the same goes for chapter, paragraph, subsection, subsubsection, all of which I use.
Jenny