Re: [toolbox] completion format

[Will R. <ws...@gm...>]

On 27/04/2006, at 13:22 , Adam R. Maxwell wrote:

>> XML, meh. Anyway, my characters weren't <>, they were =8B=9B, single =20=

>> guillemets. An opening/closing syntax is a marked improvement over =20=

>> my quickly hacked together solution. I was just following from =20
>> what TeXShop already provided for.
>
> Wouldn't this be front-end specific?  I don't see anything wrong =20
> with having <#...#>, even, since it's strictly a placeholder.  =20
> Xcode uses ctrl-/ to select placeholders as well, so that's a nice =20
> familiar shortcut for some of us.

I guess it would be transformed into whichever form the front end =20
preferred.

> If anyone's interested in a popup window implementation for =20
> autocomplete, we rewrote Apple's NSTextView autocompletion =20
> mechanism for BibDesk.  I wonder how difficult it would be to add =20
> that style (popup child window) of autocomplete for LaTeX?  It =20
> could be triggered by something like "\usepackage geom"<hit esc>, =20
> search list of commands and packages with "geom" in them, and then =20
> replacing " geom" with the selected choice.

That'd certainly be better than what's available at present.
Something to keep in mind; thanks for the tip.

Will=