[TxMt] Improving SymbolPopup for LaTeX?

[Horst Gutmann]

Horst Gutmann wrote:
> 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
> 
> 

Bingo :) I made a new Preferences' entry and set its scope to
"text.latex meta.section" and it seems to work more or less :) Just some
minor problems with the regexp as it seems :)