I was a long-standing user of emacs for my LaTeX documents, and I have recently switched to TextMate, but I miss some features of emacs. In particular:
pressing TAB in an environment (or in math mode, or inside parenthesis) move the cursor out of the environment (math mode, parenthesis). In addition pressing tab when in sub/superscrit takes the cursor out of the superscript and removes the curly brackets if the sub/superscript contains a single character.
For inserting symbols I were used to the RefTeX way, i.e., pressing a key (` in the original setting and ! in my customisation) followed by a letter produces a (LaTeX) symbol. So for example typing !a produces \alpha and !A produces \forall.
I wonder if there are ways to replicate the behaviours in TextMate.
All the best
Guido
-- Dr Guido Governatori School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering The University of Queensland Brisbane, Queensland, 4072, Australia Phone: +61-(0)7-336 52907 Fax: +61-(0)7-336 54999 http://www.itee.uq.edu.au/~guido http://www.governatori.net http://www.defeasible.org
You can simply define your own commands. For Tab-Move-Out-Of-Math-Mode I would record a Macro: search for "$($)?|\]" and move cursor right Save this as a command, set the key to tab, and restrict the scope to "string.other.math.tex".
Since sub/superscript have not an own scope it will be not so easy to do the things you would like to do with them. But maybe the example above shows how things are working in Textmate.
For you other problem: I read somewhere that "a-esc" will cycle through commands starting with a, but I can't find it right now.
Regards,
Ruben
On 10/10/2007, at 5:51 PM, Ruben Debeerst wrote:
You can simply define your own commands. For Tab-Move-Out-Of-Math- Mode I would record a Macro: search for "$($)?|\]" and move cursor right Save this as a command, set the key to tab, and restrict the scope to "string.other.math.tex".
Thanks for the suggestion. Indeed I have created a macro for this (with a little more complicated regexp to use it also to exit from environments). But I found that the tab key was not the best option, since associating it with the macro will prevent its normal use. So I have associated with it backtab (shift-tab).
Since sub/superscript have not an own scope it will be not so easy to do the things you would like to do with them. But maybe the example above shows how things are working in Textmate.
I have created simple snippets for them, so tab can be used to move out the sub/superscript.
For you other problem: I read somewhere that "a-esc" will cycle through commands starting with a, but I can't find it right now.
Correct "\a-esc" will cycle though commands starting with a (but there could be too many commands before you get the right one or you have to type the almost full name of it).
I have created a command that extends the behaviour of the LaTeX Symbol Based on Current World / Selection command of LaTeX Bundle. It works also with non-word characters (though it must be called using a macro). Though I'm not sure I have understood correctly the behaviour of the input output of command from the Bundle Editor, in particular the combination
Input: Selected Text or Word Output: Replace Selected Text
If some text is selected fine, no problems. Now if no text is selected, the input is the current word. What about the output? If the selection contains only word character, then the word is replaced, but then if the current word (obtained from the environment variable TM_CURRENT_WORD) contains non-word characters then the replacement text is appended; it seems to me that it should replace the input.
I have another question:
Given a scope as input, is there any way to move or select text to the end/begin of the current scope?
Regards,
Guido
-- Dr Guido Governatori School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering The University of Queensland Brisbane, Queensland, 4072, Australia Phone: +61-(0)7-336 52907 Fax: +61-(0)7-336 54999 http://www.itee.uq.edu.au/~guido http://www.governatori.net http://www.defeasible.org
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