Texmaker and TeXstudio ⇒ Code auto completion bug/problem

[sade...]

Hi,

When I use Texmaker (both in 1.9.2 and 1.9.9) the code auto completion helps me until I need to type a special character. For example, when I start typing "\begin" a popup appears giving me a nice lists of environments, but when I type the "{" to attempt to limit the list the popup disappears. When I use TexmakerX this problem does not occur.

I think this is because the "{" I type is in utf-8 (since i use ubuntu 9.10) and texmaker is expection some other encoding for the "{". I've tried setting the font encoding to "utf-8" instead of "system" in the configuration menu, but this did not help.

Anyway google-ing for this bug is pretty frustrating, I only seem to find websites claiming that Texmaker provides code autocompletion. I find it even more frustrating that Texmaker does not have it's own forum somewhere, because that is where I would normaly search for an answer or start this thread.

[localghost]

Contact the author on the homepage. It is very unlikely that he reads this thread. After that, feel free to report new insights here.


Best regards and welcome to the board
Thorsten

[sade...]

consider it done,

My intention with this post was to see if more people experience this. I think many people do, but only a few notice.

[frabjous]

I can confirm that I get the same behavior you report running TeXmaker under Ubuntu. (I get it whatever character encoding I select.) I've never noticed because I very rarely use TeXmaker. I only use it when I want to compile with plain LaTeX rather than pdfLaTeX or XeLaTeX (for the latter, I use TeXworks). But hopefully you'll get a response from the author.

[gmedina]

Hi, frabjous

...I only use it when I want to compile with plain LaTeX rather than pdfLaTeX or XeLaTeX (for the latter, I use TeXworks)...

Perhaps you already know it but you can compile with latex in TeXworks: go to the "Edit" menu; in "Preferences" select the "Typesetting" tab. Go to the "Processing Tools" window and click on the "+" icon to the right.

When the "Tool Configuration" window opens, create the new tool as follows:

Name: LaTeX
Program: simpdftex
Arguments: latex
--extratexopts
-synctex=1
$fulname

Click "OK" and now you can use latex with TeXworks.

[sade...]

I can confirm that I get the same behavior you report running TeXmaker under Ubuntu. (I get it whatever character encoding I select.)

Thanks for confirming, now I know I'm not the only one.


@gmedina: Thanks for the extra info about TeXworks but, please stay a little bit on topic.

[frabjous]

Thanks, gmedina. I was pretty sure I could define an output routine for LaTeX in TeXworks, but given how infrequently I need to do that, I hadn't bothered looking into it.