Latex-workshop: Feature request - autocomplete environment delimiters?

[zachjweiner]

As I move over from ShareLaTeX, I'm wondering if support for autocompletion of environment \begin... \end's could be implemented? E.g. in ShareLaTeX I can type \ali, and \begin{align}...\end{align} appears in the dropdown.

[jabooth]

Agreed, would be nice to have, and seems quite straightforward with the snippets feature...

[James-Yu]

No problem!

[James-Yu]

Try it out! Soon!

[jabooth]

This is fantastic @James-Yu!

Just to check it's only on master right now and not released correct?

I'm just playing with maybe refining the pop up a little bit like I did for the citations (you know I can't help myself 😂)

[James-Yu]

@jabooth right it's not released to the marketplace. Feel free to make changes!

[zachjweiner]

Thanks @James-Yu! Very exciting. How often do you release to the marketplace/how quickly do new commits make it there? Might have to start installing manually...

[James-Yu]

Should be ready in few hours if not minutes. The sorting things in intellisense is very tricky and I may need more time to work it out. Meanwhile, the current state is still satisfactory. :P

[jabooth]

@James-Yu yeah agreed, totally worth getting something out now, and we can see what users give for feedback!

[zachjweiner]

Working great. Just wish I could control the order of the dropdown menu, but I suspect that's out of your control, @James-Yu . Thanks again for this!

[level1807]

I'd suggest that this should work like on Overleaf: once an environment is used in the code, autocomplete learns its name it suggests it from then on. For instance, I defined a "defn" environment, but the only thing your autocomplete suggests is "definition". The same idea applies to all latex commands, macros etc. Once I've used them, autocomplete should learn that they are legit.

[jlelong]

It already works for commands but you are right not for environments. I have created a feature request for this #1249