Feature request: auto-close math environments opened with \( or \[

[phlippieb]

Don't know if this necessary falls within the scope of this package, but here goes. As someone writing a document with many mathematical formulas, I would love it if, when I type \( or \[, atom would add \) or \] after my cursor, similarly to how a simple ( is often auto-closed with a ) after the cursor in other languages.

[Aerijo]

No, that's not something done by this package.

I believe latex-autocomplete might do it though.

[phlippieb]

Cool, thanks for the lead. I have latex-autocomplete installed and it does not currently do that, but I'll see if they'd be interested in adding it.

[Aerijo]

@phlippieb If you don't mind a manually activated autocomplete, my own autocomplete-latex offers custom completions and some common default ones. Using it, you could type $ + tab to expand to \(\), with the cursor between the brackets. Alternatively, you could define your own prefix to do this.

[phlippieb]

Alright, I'll give a shot. Thanks!

[phlippieb]

That actually works very nicely!

[Aerijo]

You can also override what it expands into (e.g., you might want to add spaces like this: \( \) to make the contents easier to read). Same goes for any other default completion.