On Fri, May 21, 2004 at 04:14:07PM +0000, Ronen Abravanel wrote:
> I think lyx would be even more magnificant than it is if it helped out senile 
> people like me that don't remember all of their latex commands when they are 
> stuck.
> 
> For example, if I write \twohead<tab>, vaguely remembering something like 
> \twoheadleftrightarrow, then I would like to be told whether it really 
> exists, or whether I'm barking up the wrong tree.

Would be nice but as far as I can tell there is no way to retrieve all
defined macros in TeX. One can only check for a specific macro and even
that would be misleading as any standard TeX macro might have vanished
at the point where you try to insert it in LyX.

> Probably some very simple variation on autocompletion would bring most of the 
> benefit, even if it simply autocompleted the maximal prefix common to all 
> commands that match the typed prefix (which doesn't require new UI elements, 
> just looking up commands and inserting characters).

Looking up commands is the problem here...

Andre'

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