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**asegarra** · March 2, 2025, 3:43pm

I’m using Latextools and latex-cwl to write latex on sublime. I would like to see the list of completions that the packages use (for example: e completes to \epsilon, a to \alpha, i to \item…)

The documetation Points to a non-existent file on github (that also doesn’t exist on my machine).

Any ideas?

**deathaxe** · March 2, 2025, 4:11pm

Content of LaTeX.sublime-completions and LaTeX math.sublime-completions has been converted to snippets in order to work around ST4 removing perfect matching completions, which prevented exactly what you ask for. They reside in snippets/ sub directory but remain using same triggers.

So typing i and hitting tab key should automatically expand to \item anywhere in a document.

a -> \alpha, e ->\epsilon are restricted to math environments.

Whether they show up in auto-completions, depends on "auto_complete_include_snippets" and "auto_complete_include_snippets_when_typing" settings.

grafik

Command completions are primarily provided by LaTeX-cwl. They require \ being typed to trigger completions by default.

**asegarra** · March 2, 2025, 4:12pm

Makes sense! Is there any documentation to make my own snippets?

**deathaxe** · March 2, 2025, 4:15pm

Completions are stored in Packages/LaTeXTools/snippets folder.

Run Menu > Preferences > Browse Packages...
navigate to LaTeXTools folder and than to snippets.

To create your own snippets, run Menu > Tools > Developer > New Snippet...

Some desciptions about snippets can be found at https://docs.sublimetext.io/guide/extensibility/snippets.html#snippets

**asegarra** · March 3, 2025, 5:51pm

May I ask where the snippet (?) that turns \left( into \left(\right) located? I need to make one with the absolute value since it’s not available and I can’t find it.

Thanks in advance.

**deathaxe** · March 3, 2025, 6:23pm

This specific one is Packages/LaTeXTools/snippets/math/lb.sublime-snippet

Those snippets are lazily named by their trigger. Some use _upr suffix to work around case-insensitive filesystems.

**asegarra** · March 8, 2025, 2:52pm

Thanks for your reply

I wasn’t talking about that particular snippet, (this one turns lb into \left[\right]). I was refering to this one, which turns \left( into \left(\right) without pressing tab.

I think it isn’t a snippet since I don’t need to press the tab key to make it work, and I wasn’t able to find it among the .py files present on my “installed packages” directory.

**deathaxe** · March 8, 2025, 5:37pm

This is a math-scope-specific key binding.

github.com

SublimeText/LaTeXTools/blob/f7e0b16c91fc227ae41ea38cecff960f810276a6/Default (Windows).sublime-keymap#L600-L610


	{
		"keys": ["("],
		"command": "insert_snippet", "args": {"contents": "($0\\\\right)"},
		"context": [
			{ "key": "setting.auto_match_enabled" },
			{ "key": "selection_empty", "match_all": true },
			{ "key": "selector", "operand": "text.tex.latex meta.environment.math", "match_all": true },
			{ "key": "preceding_text", "operator": "regex_contains", "operand": "\\\\left$", "match_all": true },
			{ "key": "following_text", "operator": "regex_contains", "operand": "^(?:\\s|\\)|\\]|\\}|\\\\|\\$|$)", "match_all": true },
		]
	},

It can only be disabled by creating a user defined override, currently.

LaTeX - list of completions