[TxMt] Improving SymbolPopup for LaTeX?

[Horst Gutmann]

Charilaos Skiadas wrote:
> Hi Horst,
> On Dec 2, 2005, at 11:14 AM, Horst Gutmann wrote:
> 
>> Hi :)
>>
>> Sorry, if this has already been this discussed, but I couldn't find
>> anything related. I'm looking for a way to alter the appearance of let's
>> say subsection headers in the Symbol Popup. Normally these would appear
>> the same way as would sections. So I want to have subsections be
>> slightly intended as for example class methods are in Python language
>> bundle. My problem now is, I couldn't yet find out how this is achieved
>> there :) I'd really appreciate any help on this matter :)
>>
> It seems to me this is set by the symbolTransformation preference in the
> Preferences part of the Python Bundle. I tried to do something similar
> for LaTeX and add:
> 
> symbolTransformation = 's/^(\s*)\\section\{(.+)\}/$1 $2/;
> s/^(\s*)\\subsection\{(.+)\}/$1 $2/';
> 
> in the "Symbol List" preference section of the bundle, but I couldn't
> get it to work. Maybe someone can explain to us how it is supposed to
> work, and why the above didn't work as expected?
> I bet Allan has explained it in great detail somewhere in the blog and
> I've missed it. Off to do an in depth search...

Ah, the place I wasn't looking in :) I was only searching in the
language definition. While checking the preferences I noticed that this
is "Symbol List:Method" preference is bound to the declaration scope. So
perhaps we also have to set this symbolTransformation setting for the
meta.section scope or something like that :)

Horst