Re: Tooltip and incremental drop-down menus of automatic completion.
Hongyi Zhao writes: > On Mon, Jun 14, 2021 at 4:22 PM Jean Louis wrote: >> >> * Hongyi Zhao [2021-06-14 10:04]: >> > When I typeset LaTeX source file in Emacs with auctex enabled, I >> > want to know if the features like tooltip and incremental drop-down >> > menus of automatic completion are available. >> >> I don't know about the tooltip, that usually shortly explains the icon >> in the toolbar. > > See screenshot named as tooltip.png, which is shown in TeXstudio. AFAIK the only tooltip support in AUCTeX is for revealing folded buffer content; see the end of (info "(auctex) Folding") [0]. One way to find the documentation of a package at point is with the commands TeX-documentation-texdoc or TeX-doc; see (info "(auctex) Documentation") [1]. I'm not aware of any commands for briefly summarising that information, though. I'm sure the AUCTeX experts here will know better. [0]: https://www.gnu.org/software/auctex/manual/auctex/Folding.html [1]: https://www.gnu.org/software/auctex/manual/auctex/Documentation.html > I tried `ivy' in Emacs, but it shows some shortcomings, as described below: > > 1. The incremental drop down menu only will be triggered when the > input character number greater than 3. That must be a result of some setting/package unrelated to Ivy. With or without Ivy, AUCTeX can complete even the start of a macro '\'. > 2. Some commands, say, `\href', will not be automatically completed at all. This is not an issue with Ivy; see my reply on the Ivy issue tracker: https://github.com/abo-abo/swiper/issues/2887#issuecomment-860617241 -- Basil
Re: Tooltip and incremental drop-down menus of automatic completion.
Hongyi Zhao writes: > On Ubuntu 20.04, I use the latest git master Emacs and auctex compiled > from source. > > When I typeset LaTeX source file in Emacs with auctex enabled, I want > to know if the features like tooltip and incremental drop-down menus > of automatic completion are available. Have you tried company-mode? https://company-mode.github.io/ -- Basil
Re: Tooltip and incremental drop-down menus of automatic completion.
* Hongyi Zhao [2021-06-14 12:59]: > See screenshot named as tooltip.png, which is shown in TeXstudio. Replacement for that kind of information of the command in LaTeX is the command C-? in auctex that will show you documentation of it. The completion is possible with `ivy' package, it is almost the same. -- Jean Take action in Free Software Foundation campaigns: https://www.fsf.org/campaigns In support of Richard M. Stallman https://stallmansupport.org/
Re: Tooltip and incremental drop-down menus of automatic completion.
* Hongyi Zhao [2021-06-14 10:04]: > When I typeset LaTeX source file in Emacs with auctex enabled, I > want to know if the features like tooltip and incremental drop-down > menus of automatic completion are available. I don't know about the tooltip, that usually shortly explains the icon in the toolbar. Completion of macros is available with C-M-i, for example you write: \use and press C-M-i then you get possible completions: Click on a completion to select it. In this buffer, type RET to select the completion near point. Possible completions are: usebox usecounter usepackage If you write: \usep and press C-M-i it completes to \usepackage Now to get an incremental drop down meny I may recommend using package `ivy' from GNU ELPA as that would open up the possible completions when using macro completion key bindings C-M-i See screenshot attached, as it shows possible incremental completion next to the cursor, that is `ivy' package doing it. -- Jean Take action in Free Software Foundation campaigns: https://www.fsf.org/campaigns In support of Richard M. Stallman https://stallmansupport.org/
