Re: ECB for LaTeX?

[Klaus Berndl]

I think, in my role as the ECB-maintainer i can bring some light into the
darkness ;-)

On 13 May 2003, Phillip Lord wrote:

> >>>>> "Kai" == Kai Großjohann <kai.grossjohann@gmx.net> writes:
>  
>    Kai> I'm wondering if ECB would be of any help for composing LaTeX
>    Kai> documents.  Opinions?  
>  
>  It should be. The new version in CVS does a speedbar like display in

Not only a speedbar-like mechanism - it is the speedbar mechanism. In fact,
ECB uses the original speedbar-mechanism for displaying file-contents of
file-types which can not being parsed by semantic but by imenu and/or etags.
So, if speedbar can parse the file-type, ECB will be autom. able too!

>  the methods buffer (or sections, subsections and so on), although when
>  I last tried this it didn't work cleanly, and sadly I have no had time
>  to write up a good bug report.

Yes, i know...this was the reason i have posted an announcement in the
ECB-mailing list about the new feature in the CVS...people should beta-test
this so i can make this feature stable for next production-version of ECB.
Currently I'm quite busy but i hope to find the time in the near future to fix
currently existing bugs in this new feature.

And for this some bug-reports from users would be really helpful ;-)

But parsing- and displaying stuff of this new feature works already well
(other opinions are appreciated!), the only thing i have to fix is the
integration into ECB concerning when to reparse/update the display, flushing
the cache...should not be too hard!

>  This was a feature that I asked for,
>  because the methods buffer was empty when using latex, when it would
>  have been very useful. 

Yes, thanks to Phil for this suggestion!

Ciao,
Klaus

>  Phil

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