Re: [Kile-devel] First beta release of Kile 1.8

[Jeroen W. <Jer...@kd...>]

On Wednesday 30 March 2005 08:50 pm, Thibaut Cousin wrote:
> Le Jeudi 24 Mars 2005 19:39, Jeroen Wijnhout a =C3=A9crit=C2=A0:
> > The Kile developers are pleased to announce the availability of the fir=
st
> > beta release of Kile 1.8. Kile is a LaTeX editor for the KDE desktop.
> >
> > The most important changes are:
> > * QuickPreview: Compile and view a selection of your document. Very
> > convenient if you want to preview a section, formula or paragraph of yo=
ur
> > document. * UserHelp: Add help documents of your choice to the Help men=
u.
> > * 3 new wizards: Float, Math and Postscript Tools.
> > * Several bugfixes and cleanups.
>
>   I downloaded and built a SUSE 9.2 package, compiled against KDE 3.4, and
> so far it works just fine.=20

Great! But no surprise, since I'm using an identical system ;-)

> I don't intend to release that package, since=20
> it's beta, but I can make it available somewhere if some people are
> interested. As a user, I have one complaint: is it possible to turn off
> autocompletion of ordinary language while keeping autocompletion of TeX
> commands? It's almost unbearable to have Kile popup its little menu under
> each word I'm typing. It distracts the eye and makes it difficult to stay
> focused on what I'm typing. Moreover, the use is limited since the list of
> possible completions is usually too long to be manageable.

Try Settings->Configure Kile->Completion->Auto completion (text). Perhaps t=
his=20
should be turned off by default.

best,
Jeroen