[TxMt] Regarding the LaTeX bundle

[Alan Schmitt]

On 12 sept. 06, at 15:17, Charilaos Skiadas wrote:

> Well, I was actually kidding, but if you do want to do this the  
> simplest thing would be to create a new snippet with key equivalent  
> $, and with text: “\( $TM_SELECTED_TEXT$1 \)” without the quotes.  
> Then you can tab out of the math environment, provided you don't  
> use a different snippet while in there. This also allows you to  
> enclose something in a math environment simply by selecting it and  
> then pressing $.
>
> The only thing remaining is an easier way to get out of the math  
> environment, perhaps by pressing $ anywhere in an existing math  
> environment. You could that by a macro that searches for a regular  
> expression (?<=\\\))
>
> This is just an idea, it has some problems that would need to be  
> smoothed out. First of all, inserting an actual dollar sign is more  
> difficult, but we could allow it by having the above not work after  
> a slash (for escaped dollar signs) and not work in verbatim  
> environment. (see http://macromates.com/textmate/manual/ 
> scope_selectors#scope_selectors, section 13.3)
>
> second, I often find that while in math, I use $ to split a math  
> formula in two. So perhaps inside a math environment it might be  
> best for $ to do that.
>
> All these would, if they become official in any way, go into the  
> separate LaTeX Experimental bundle, so that people who do not want  
> them could disable them.
>
>
> Another simpler thing you can do, which doesn't conflict with the  
> use of $, is to create a snippet, with tab trigger \(, which would  
> insert “\\( $0 \\”, without the quotes. It's not perfect, but it's  
> a start. Try it out and see if it works. You would need to press a  
> tab after the \( of course.
> One could instead set the snippet to have a key equivalent of (,  
> have a scope that only triggers it when the caret is after a \  
> (which is actually not too easy to do now that I think about it),  
> and have its text be “( $1 \\)” without the quotes.

Thanks for these suggestions. I'm still very new to TextMate  
customization (I only created a small bundle for some very specific  
files I often edit), but I'll definitely explore these solutions.

Thanks again,

Alan


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