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Besides defining longer technical words by

\newcommand{\trimam}{trans-impedance-amplifier}

to save typing time.

Is there a Latex Editor (can be Linux or Windows) that offers "word completion"

https://help.libreoffice.org/Writer/Word_Completion_for_Text_Documents

similar like Libreoffice or Word. For technical documents \newcommand might be better changing a technical term afterwards through the whole document. But for prose text I would prefer a "word completion" feature indexing already used words and offering shortcut completion when typing first three letters.

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    See LaTeX Editors/IDEs for a long list. I would assume that most editors support word completion. Emacs/AUCTeX definitely does.
    – alexurba
    Aug 15, 2013 at 14:51
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    Kile does this.
    – Torbjørn T.
    Aug 15, 2013 at 14:51
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    While I don't recommend it, there is nothing that prevents you from using Word to create your LaTeX source files, if you save them in text mode. Then, you just need a separate window through which to invoke LaTeX upon your newly-created Word text document. I'm not being facetious ... I use such an approach, sans Word as the editor.
    – Steven B. Segletes
    Aug 15, 2013 at 15:08
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    vim with SuperTab-plugin does. There is a plugin for everything, even thesaurus.
    – schmendrich
    Aug 15, 2013 at 15:32
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    And of course, in the same feuding boat as Vim, Emacs has this feature (out of the box, I believe).
    – Sean Allred
    Aug 16, 2013 at 4:29

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In Windows, WinEdt offers this feature. You write few letters of a word and then press Ctrl + Enter. A pop-up window will show you the possible list of words as in the following figure.

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Double clicking on the desired word will insert it in the place.

Sublimetext

Sublime text too has this feature. But I found that its word completion is not as thorough as WinEdt. For example it didn't know the completion for the word assume as I did in winedt. But, may be we have to do something extra to have all words, which I never explored. Here you have to press few letters of the word and then press Ctrl + Space to view the options as in the figure. Then click on the desired word to get it in place.

PS. Pressing Tab will insert the first word in the above list i.e, hamburgers.

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Texmaker

In texmaker, right click on the half completed word, a pop-up window will open with possible suggestions. Click on the desired word to insert it. Same works in TeXstudio also.

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TeXnicCenter

Though I could not get it work (as I am not good in using TeXnicCenter), there is an option for completing words.

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Those who know, please feel free to edit and add details.

gedit

gedit with the "word completion" plugin activated, it shows a dynamic list of possible matches.

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  • thanks for the nice overview. One correction, it seems TexnicCenter (I use this one currently) has only code completion, but no word completion, so only "/word/" gets completed
    – James Last
    Aug 16, 2013 at 9:09
  • I am using texstudio which is excellent but I could not find this feature. Would you help me to activate this feature?
    – prashanta_himalay
    Jan 27, 2016 at 15:48
  • @prashanta_himalay Texstudio is similar to texmaker. Right click on the incomplete word.
    – user11232
    Jan 30, 2016 at 1:06
  • @HarishKumar True. But I was not getting the same thing in my Ubuntu version. But checked with other Linux and it is working fine.
    – prashanta_himalay
    Jan 30, 2016 at 6:21
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Emacs can also do this, for example using Toby Cubitt's predictive mode. There are a bunch of other modes that can also help, as well.

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Other options include AutoComplete and company-mode

Even more options are listed in the Emacswiki Completion Category page

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TeXWorks also have the ability to complete the words included in a word list file, which is located in ~/.TeXworks/completion/ as a simple file text (like word_list.txt).

And as said before, Kile does it to, with a word_list.cwl located in ~/.kde/share/apps/kile/complete/dictionary/ (then go to the settings to add this file to auto-completion).

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In February 2013, the online editor ShareLaTeX introduced auto-completion for already-used commands within your document:

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Future improvements may include scanning packages that are loaded to add to the available auto-completion selection.

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