Add to TexStudio autocompletion

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I'd love to know how to add the eqnarray* environment to autocompletion, I only get the regular eqnarray. (I'm using Windows 7)

Welcome to TeX.SX! You can have a look at our starter guide to familiarize yourself further with our format. — Why do you use eqnarry anyway? See eqnarray vs align. — Qrrbrbirlbel, Jul 28 '13 at 23:19
Hahaha, I forgot about that! I'll start to use align then, thanks for the reminder! — Julio Cáceres, Jul 28 '13 at 23:21

score 4 · Accepted Answer · edited Feb 11 '19 at 09:36

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For completeness: You find more info on how the completer works in the FAQ.

In the special case of eqnarray*, it's not really missing but included in l2tabu.cwl. This is not loaded by default, because eqnarray* is deprecated. If you insist to use it for some reason, you can include it by checking l2tabu.cwl at Options -> Configure -> Completion -> Use following completion files.

edited Feb 11 '19 at 09:36

Bubaya

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answered Jul 29 '13 at 20:27

Tim Hoffmann

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score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 31 '17 at 07:58

Otherwise, if you want allow completion with personnal command, you need to create a CWL file in the personnal folder (C:\Users\XX\AppData\Roaming\TeXstudio\completion\user).

On each lign you write your commands, in this form :

\command
\commandWithText{text}

You can see arguments example here : http://texstudio.sourceforge.net/manual/current/usermanual_en.html#CWLDESCRIPTION

Don't forget to activate you personnal CWL file in the TexStudio settings !

score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Jul 29 '13 at 01:28

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Typing the first parts of the environment \begin{eqn, there should be a \begin{eqnarray} listed in the pop up for autocompletion. It should look like this. (I am using version 2.6.2 by the way and it should work in any platform.)

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But as suggested, you should use the align or align* environment instead. In order to activate text completion for align and other amsmath environments, click

Options > Configure TeXstudio... > Completion

then click on the check box for amsmath as you can see in the picture below.

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answered Jul 29 '13 at 01:28

hpesoj626

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Yes, but he wanted to use eqnarray*. ;) Either way, the canonical way for auto-completion for an environment is (after typing eqn) Ctrl+Alt+Space. – Qrrbrbirlbel Jul 29 '13 at 01:40
Hi @Qrrbrbirlbel Thanks for letting me know about the Ctrl+Alt+Space. I just hit Enter after typing enough characters to isolate the specific text completion for the command/environment as I find it faster that way, or scroll down to the specific command/environment. Am I missing something by not using Ctrl+Alt+Space? – hpesoj626 Jul 29 '13 at 02:00
Well, Enter works only because “Automatically start completer when typing LaTeX-Commands” in the “Completion” tab of the Configuration checked. Without it, you first need to do Ctrl+Space (the completion for macros). You’re missing typing \begin! ;) I learned about Ctrl+Alt+Space due to a bug concerning completing environment which is long fixed. – Qrrbrbirlbel Jul 29 '13 at 02:09
I see now. Perhaps I missed your earlier comments. I have to get back to this a little later though. Thanks! – hpesoj626 Jul 29 '13 at 02:13
@Qrrbrbirlbel I am getting a bug when I hit Ctrl+Alt+Enter. I get an extra } at the end of the environment. File in https://sourceforge.net/p/texstudio/bugs/775/ – hpesoj626 Jul 29 '13 at 10:29
You don't type the \begin part. Simply type enu, then Ctrl+Alt+Enter will create \begin{enumrate}<cursor>\end{enumerate}. – Qrrbrbirlbel Jul 29 '13 at 21:47

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