Feature request: Add \end{<whatever>} by typing extra "}" after \begin{<whatever>}

[texworks]

Feature request: Add \end{} by typing extra "}" after \begin{}

from texworks.

[GoogleCodeExporter]

The "natural" TeXworks way to do this at the moment would be to have a 
completion entry along the lines of

\bdoc:=\begin{document}#RET##INS##RET#\end{document}#RET#

which would allow you to type \bdoc<tab> to reach the same result.

A "smart closing brace" that recognizes any preceding \begin{whatever} and adds 
the corresponding \end 
seems a bit too specialized and LaTeX-specific to me. I don't want TeXworks to 
have hard-coded LaTeX-isms 
in the editor; it should be a general-purpose TeX editor that can be customized 
for LaTeX, ConTeXt, or 
whatever using an appropriate configuration.

What I hope to provide eventually is a scripting interface that you could use 
to add functionality like this; I 
think that's a better approach than building special "}" processing into the 
core program. But it will be some 
time before that interface is available.

Original comment by [email protected] on 29 Sep 2008 at 6:26

• Added labels: Type-Enhancement
• Removed labels: Type-Defect

[GoogleCodeExporter]

I see your point about being too specialised, so perhaps you are right about the
scripting. I guess that I am used to the multiple modes of my current editor, 
where
this only happens in TeX mode.

Original comment by [email protected] on 29 Sep 2008 at 8:13

[GoogleCodeExporter]

This is one of the best features of textmate, but it's configured separately for
LaTeX and ConTeXt. It uses alt-apple-dot shortcut (I think). One can use it an 
any
time, it just writes \stopsomething in ConTeXt if \startsomething has been the 
last
unclosed command sequence, or \end{something} for LaTeX. (There is probably no 
plain
TeX support there.)

But it's also true that this is implemented rather generically with regular
expressions and not hardcoded.

Original comment by [email protected] on 27 Aug 2009 at 2:19

[josephwright]

Thinking about this at some remove, it's likely best closed: probably one for scripting. (I was the original reporter ...)