[Github-comments] [geany/geany] Latex ac (#1011)

Marcelo Garlet Millani notifications at xxxxx
Thu Apr 28 08:09:35 UTC 2016


LaTeX has plain text (natural language), macros (always preceded by a `\`), environments (like macros, but without the `\` in the beginning. They only appear as arguments for macros, like in `\begin{env}`.) and labels (which are not preceded by `\` and can contain mostly anything, like spaces. They are also only used as arguments, like in `\ref{label name}`). The parser identifies each one of these (except plain text) as different kinds. Additionally, it has chapter, section, subsection and subsubsection, but I guess these are only for navigation, so that the user can quickly jump to different parts of the document. 

The lexer is capable of identifying a `\begin` and its argument (that is, its argument is highlighted differently from arguments of other macros), so differentiating between labels and environments should be possible. It also treats macros differently from plain text.
Currently, geany is capable of omitting autocomplete inside strings and comments. So if plain text is treated as a string by [this function](https://github.com/geany/geany/blob/master/src/highlighting.c#L1391), autocomplete would be disabled for it. Then it would be possible to remove `\` from wordchars in editor.c as well as the LaTeX-specific portion to separate macros.



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