Extending TOC Buffer Outlines

Extending TOC Buffer Outlines

[Daniel Nemenyi]

Dear all,

I'm writing a LaTeX document and using the \section{} titles to write
inline abstracts of the text beneath them. The ever-handy emacs TOC
buffer is great but it crops these down to 100 characters, which for
most use cases is completely reasonable, but I'd like to see their whole
text - and, yes, wrapped too if that's not too big a hassle!

Any ideas appreciated,
Regards
d

Re: Extending TOC Buffer Outlines

[Göktuğ Kayaalp]

On 2018-04-27 15:00 +01, Daniel Nemenyi <daniel@pompo.co> wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I'm writing a LaTeX document and using the \section{} titles to write
> inline abstracts of the text beneath them. The ever-handy emacs TOC
> buffer is great but it crops these down to 100 characters, which for
> most use cases is completely reasonable, but I'd like to see their whole
> text - and, yes, wrapped too if that's not too big a hassle!

Hi,

you may want to try Imenu which will add a menu to the menu bar that
lists parts of the documents and you can click to jump to them (see
(info "(emacs) Imenu")), and conveniently in TeX buffer it lists
\sections.  To add it, add this:

    (imenu-add-to-menubar "Sections")

to your TeX mode's hook.  By default it uses up to 60 chars from the
sections name, but you can set _imenu-max-item-length_ to something like
1000 so that it shows all of the section title.  It does _not_ wrap
though.  But on my ~15" laptop screen it can show sth. about 200
characters, so it might be good enough.  I don't know what command
brings up the mode you use, so I can't compare.

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Re: Extending TOC Buffer Outlines

[Daniel Nemenyi]

Thanks Göktuğ,

Göktuğ Kayaalp writes:

> On 2018-04-27 15:00 +01, Daniel Nemenyi <daniel@pompo.co> wrote:
>> Dear all,
>>
>> I'm writing a LaTeX document and using the \section{} titles to write
>> inline abstracts of the text beneath them. The ever-handy emacs TOC
>> buffer is great but it crops these down to 100 characters, which for
>> most use cases is completely reasonable, but I'd like to see their whole
>> text - and, yes, wrapped too if that's not too big a hassle!
>
> Hi,
>
> you may want to try Imenu which will add a menu to the menu bar that
> lists parts of the documents and you can click to jump to them (see
> (info "(emacs) Imenu")), and conveniently in TeX buffer it lists
> \sections.  To add it, add this:
>
>     (imenu-add-to-menubar "Sections")
>
> to your TeX mode's hook.  By default it uses up to 60 chars from the
> sections name, but you can set _imenu-max-item-length_ to something like
> 1000 so that it shows all of the section title.  It does _not_ wrap
> though.  But on my ~15" laptop screen it can show sth. about 200
> characters, so it might be good enough.  I don't know what command
> brings up the mode you use, so I can't compare.

I'm going to expose my ignorance here and say that I'm not sure how to
implement that in code :/

A different workaround might be to display the optional abbreviated
title instead if it exists. Ie, where

\section[short title]{full title}

Will print the short title in the actual PDF TOC and title, but the full
title inline and in reftex-toc, have reftex-toc print the short title
instead.

Regards
Dan