[OS X TeX] Wish for TexShop's command completion

[Eric van der Oord]

Thanks !  Your solution works fine.

Eric
Le 1 juil. 2011 à 13:54, Herbert Schulz a écrit :

> 
> On Jul 1, 2011, at 3:11 AM, Eric van der Oord wrote:
> 
>> I would  like that typing "f^xa" and pressing trigger gave "f^{\alpha}".  instead of "f{xa}"
>> 
>> Just so save hundreds of "SPACE" a day...
>> 
>> Eric
>> Le 30 juin 2011 à 23:50, Herbert Schulz a écrit :
>> 
>>> 
>>> On Jun 30, 2011, at 12:00 PM, Eric van der Oord wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Could "{",  "(" and "[" be word boundary characters ?
>>>> 
>>>> Grateful regards to the Texshop's development team
>>>> 
>>>> Eric
>>> 
>>> Howdy,
>>> 
>>> First, { and ( already are word boundary characters. However, { (and \ also) behaves a bit differently than the other word boundary characters in that it becomes part of the word. That is so, e.g., writing
>>> 
>>> \begin{enu
>>> 
>>> and pressing the trigger can expand to a complete enumerate environment. But ( already works.
>>> 
>>> We don't have [ as a word boundary character but might consider doing so if there are good examples of how it would be used.
>>> 
>>> Good Luck,
>>> 
>>> Herb Schulz
>>> (herbs at wideopenwest dot com)
> 
> Howdy,
> 
> Now now only [ (still don't know why) but ^ (and I suppose _ too).
> 
> You can solve the problem by 
> 
> 1)turning on Key Bindings (TeXShop->Preferences->Source->Editor->Key Bindings) which will automatically create ^{} with the cursor in between (I know that there are some problems on a French keyboard and a macro assigned to a key may be the easiest solution); and
> 
> 2)Editing the Command Completion file (Source->Command Completion->Edit Command Completion File…) and do the following. Find the and select the complete list if greek character abbreviations that start with
> 
> xcx:=\Xi
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> and end with
> 
> xa:=\alpha
> 
> and duplicate them. Then place { in front of each of the duplicates and abbreviations, e.g.,
> 
> {xa:={\alpha
> 
> then when you write f and ^ you will get
> 
> f^{}
> 
> with the cursor between the braces. Finally typing xa to get
> 
> f^{xa}
> 
> with the cursor just after the `xa' will give the expansion
> 
> f^{\alpha}
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> with the cursor before the }.
> 
> If you literally want f^{\alpha} rather than a more general thing (g^{\beta}) the easiest thing is to create a macro to do the whole thing.
> 
> Good Luck,
> 
> Herb Schulz
> (herbs at wideopenwest dot com)
> 
> 
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