Anyone heard of a LaTeX pulgin?

[Therrk]

I really want to use micro to edit latex, however I haven't seen any plugins for it. Has anyone heard of/seen a latex plugin I could help develop? There's an issue talking about it but that's pretty much it. If I can't find any, I'll star my own!

[matthias314]

Recently I've started to write my own LaTeX plugin. Apart from compilation, it supports autocompletion for environments, labels and bibliographic references. It's still work in progress, but already useful, I believe.

In order to parse the LaTeX file, the plugin uses regular expressions with capture groups (submatches). Since this is not supported by micro at present (compare #3552), the plugin needs a custom branch from my fork of micro. See the installation instructions for the plugin.

Feedback is welcome!

[aleeessio]

Hi, I've already installed micro. How can I update the editor with the missing depencies for latex plugin from your forked repo without reinstalling it?

[matthias314]

At present, you unfortunately have to build a custom version of micro. However, this is straightforward: Assuming that you have Go installed, you simply clone my repository, check out the m3/latex branch and say make. This produces a micro binary that you can copy to whatever directory you like.

That being said, I'm optimistic that we can get the necessary changes into micro. The biggest stumbling block is the support for submatches. That's in #3658, which is currently being looked at by the maintainers.

[aleeessio]

Thank you, I'll try :)