Hi,

Any chance for a *different* shortcut for emph in the default LaTeX bundle? I don't like messing around in the default bundles myself for as far as I understand TM will create a "local" copy and I can no longer easily benefit from updates in the default bundles … :(

I actually believe that this is no longer the case. TextMate should save your changes in local delta file which will let you alter the bundle while still benefiting from updates in the default bundles.

There's some mention of that here:

http://macromates.com/blog/archives/2006/06/16/textmate-152/

I also feel like cmd-i has been \emph{} for a long time, but I guess that's neither here nor there.

-steve

On Jan 14, 2007, at 5:36 AM, Christian Bogen wrote:

Hi,

why does the LaTeX bundle suddenly default to \emph instead of \textit when I press command-i? This is a most unwelcome change as I often use the scrartcl-class where \emph seems to be typeset as underlined text instead of italic.

There was a thread about this earlier, here is one of the messages from it: http://comox.textdrive.com/pipermail/textmate/2006-September/013128.html and later another thread on it: http://comox.textdrive.com/pipermail/textmate/2006-November/014750.html

In short, it has happened a relatively long time ago, and it happened because most of us used \emph to emphasize text, which is what one usually associates with italics. \emph is better for that purpose since it will show something in roman if the surrounding is italic. Of course YMMV, but all the people I asked at the moment agreed with this change.

Any chance for a *different* shortcut for emph in the default LaTeX bundle? I don't like messing around in the default bundles myself for as far as I understand TM will create a "local" copy and I can no longer easily benefit from updates in the default bundles … :(

First of all, this will create only a local copy of this particular command, so you will get updates to all other commands both in the LaTeX bundle and all other bundles. Second, what is saved is a "delta" file. This basically means that changing the shortcut for instance will allow you to still get updates on the command text, and vice versa. Each individual part of the command is separate so to speak.

Now the command under question is called "Italic". If you locate it, you will see that it has one line:

toggle_style.rb -style=emph

So any changes to the command are likely to occur in the toggle_style.rb ruby script, and so local modifications will not really come up at all. So all you have to do is replace "emph" with "textit" in the above line, and it is highly unlikely that you will miss any significant updates.

Christian

HTH, Haris

Christian Bogen wrote:

why does the LaTeX bundle suddenly default to \emph instead of \textit when I press command-i? This is a most unwelcome change as I often use the scrartcl-class where \emph seems to be typeset as underlined text instead of italic.

Because most people prefer to use \emph.

Any chance for a *different* shortcut for emph in the default LaTeX bundle? I don't like messing around in the default bundles myself for as far as I understand TM will create a "local" copy and I can no longer easily benefit from updates in the default bundles … :(

Don't worry, just make the changes. Only the differences will be stored, so when the built-in things are updated, everything should stay working. The way I would recommend to make this change so that it will best avoid conflicts is:

1. duplicate the command/snippet which does the \emph, and move it to your own personal bundle. Then change it to do \textit instead of \emph 2. remove the keyboard shortcut on the original command.

Now the difference that will be stored in the LaTeX bundle is just to turn off the keyboard shortcut, which should (hopefully) never run into any conflicts.