Autocomplete current environment

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Is there a keyboard shortcut in TeXnicCenter to complete the current environment? In other words, it should add the appropriate \end{....}.

@Gonzalo, @Stefan: I don't think either of your hints is what he's looking for. Imagine you have \begin{pumpkinpie} Tralala and now want to end the pumpkinpie environment. @Jeremy's looking for a keyboard shortcut that inserts \end{pumpkinpie} at this point, or whatever environment might've been begun last. I don't know of any such feature, at least not in version 1RC1. — doncherry, Jun 15 '11 at 19:24
@doncherry: in that case, I'll recommend to always type \begin{<env>} \end{<env>} at once (and in this circumstances auto completion can be handy), and fill the contents afterwards; this helps to prevent forgetting to end an environment. — Gonzalo Medina, Jun 15 '11 at 19:29
Obligatory emacs answer: C-c ] closes the current environment. — Seamus, Jul 01 '11 at 10:24
You might have more luck on a TeXnicCenter mailinglist or forum. — Martin Scharrer, Jul 01 '11 at 12:47
@Gonzalo I'd suggest you write up your comment as an answer. I can't imagine there is a better answer forthcoming... — Seamus, Jul 04 '11 at 10:32
Sadly, it does seem that the correct answer is "there isn't". Oh well. It's the main feature I miss from Emacs. — Jeremy Hurwitz, Jul 06 '11 at 22:48

score 5 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 17 '11 at 07:41

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(Summarising comments as an answer, so that this question is 'answered'.)

It seems that you are looking for a keyboard shortcut to take the input

\begin{pumpkinpie}
  Tralala

and have TeXniccenter automatically close the environment with

\end{pumpkinpie}

(i.e. to close whatever the last environment opened was.) At present, the answer is 'TeXniceenter does not have such a function'. Perhaps lodge a feature request.

answered Jul 17 '11 at 07:41

Joseph Wright

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Thanks! I've marked this as the accepted answer. I've filed a feature request (https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3371679&group_id=36323&atid=479426) in case anyone else is interested. – Jeremy Hurwitz Jul 19 '11 at 18:38
Since the feature request above was closed by mistake, I filed a new one : http://sourceforge.net/p/texniccenter/user-reports/1490/ . posting it here as it is one of the top google results – imj Aug 16 '14 at 12:28
I know it's been a while since this question was posted, but as a frequent user of TexnicCenter just wanted to ask if someone knows any update about it? I was just thinking on switching to some other editor but I'm so used to this one that makes the decision hard! thanks! – kentropy Jan 11 '20 at 21:03

Autocomplete current environment

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