[TxMt] Re: LaTeX bundle, minor request

[Peter Cowan]

Piero,

If I understand correctly you might try editing the Latex bundle
preferences as per:

Section 15.4 Paired Characters
<http://www.macromates.com/textmate/manual/preferences_items#preferences_items>

HTH

Peter

On 8/14/07, Piero D'Ancona <pierodancona at gmail.com> wrote:
> Brad Miller <bmiller at ...> writes:
>
> > Piero,Can you give an example of when/why
> this is important? Its a reasonable request, I just don't
> understand it.Thanks,Brad--
> Brad MillerAssistant Professor, Computer Science
> > Luther College
>
> Ok, here is my answer: when I type \` or
> \"  (accents in tex) TextMate always inserts
> double accents, or worse, which I have to
> manually delete. This is a RPITA, which
> can be fully appreciated only when typing
> in Italian or French with a lot of accents.
> And this is not very elegant either.
>
> Solution 1 (Allan's favorite): use UTF-8
> and accented characters. Nice until
> you exchange your files with someone
> using windows or older systems or
> a system in a different language etc etc.
> When I send by e-mail a file to myself
> sometimes it's garbled... I do not like
> this and I would really prefer to use \', \" etc
> if possible
>
> Solution 2: define a snippet trggered by
> ` (backtick), which inserts a ` (sure, a
> backtick) and is tied to the scope
> meta.escape-character.latex
> The same for " (double quotes).
>
> So you see this is a nice application of
> the scope "caret after a backslash",
> I do not know if there are others, but this
> one is certainly useful for me.
> I hope this makes my request more clear.
>
> Thanks,
> Piero
>
>
>
>
>
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