General ⇒ autocomplete angst.

[marty0801]

Dear Community,

When I type ctrl+space to engage autocomplete in defining an environment, it just prints the environment commands AFTER what I've already typed, instead of replacing it. For example, I'm typing

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\begin{enu

when autocomplete prompts me. ctrl + space gives

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\begin{\begin{enumerate}
  \item
\end{enumerate}

It's getting really annoying. Any suggestions?

One more thing: Does anyone know how to disable autocomplete entirely? Thanks for the help.

[Lucia]

Hi, marty0801.

You don't type "\begin" to get the autocomplete function working properly. Just type the name of the environment you want and then press ctrl + space. Using your example, by typing "enu" and then pressing ctrl + space, you get:

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\begin{enumerate}
\item
\end{enumerate}

Regarding your second question, I don't know how to disable the autocomplete function. Actually, I like this function, so maybe someone else can be more hepfull than me...

Lucia

[athangali]

Based on the hint here,

http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/ ... xniccenter

To disable autocompletion you would need to comment out all sections

'<lxEnvironment name=".... />'

in the XML files contained in "TeXnicCenter\Packages\" (base.xml, Tex.xml, etc.).

You can use '<!-- .... --> ' to comment out each of these sections.

Here are the modified XMLs,

http://cs-people.bu.edu/tvashwin/tech_l ... es_xml.zip

When you restart TeXnicCenter an error message about incorrect Microsoft XML parser, seems to me, can be safely ignored.