Getting WinEdt to ignore lstlisting

Question

WinEdt 9.0 gives me incorrect TOC in its side panel when I use listings package to illustrate a piece of LaTeX code:

How can I get WinEdt to ignore \begin{lstlisting} ...\end{lstlisting} (and every other verbatim environments) in its structure collection process?

The closest question I can find in this site is this: Incorrect tree view of document structure with Winedt, VerbatimPlus and listings package But I could not resolve my problem using the solution there.

Anybody?

Answer 1

The first part of the the answer is clear from the comments above.

WinEdt only recognises verbatim as a "verbatim" environment. If you want more control on these kind of environments you have to install the plugin of mine VerbatimPlus. With this, you have support for environments coming from the following packages: listings, moreverb, verbatim and fancyvrb.

Now, if you want to add your personal environments to the list of supported ones, follow these steps. Let's suppose that you have created a new environment cplusplus through the \lstnewenvironment command.

Go to "Options" -> "Options Interface" and double-click the "Switches" item:

A local copy of Switches.ini gets opened. In this file, let's say after the lines

SWITCH="\begin{verbatim*} .. \end{verbatim*}"
  ENABLED=1
  MODE_FILTER="TeX|INS;STY;AUX"
  START="\"
  STOP="\"
  HIGHLIGHT_START=0
  STEP_OVER_STOP=1
  HIGHLIGHT_STOP=0
  SCOPE=4
  DOMINANT_PRIORITY=0
  STRICT_PRIORITY=1
  PRIORITY=9
  INDENTED=0
  BOLN_ONLY=0
  CASE_SENSITIVE=1
  VERBATIM=1
  START1_TRIGGER=""
  START2_TRIGGER="begin{verbatim*}"
  STOP1_TRIGGER=""
  STOP2_TRIGGER="end{verbatim*}"
    TEXT_COLOR="xclVerbatim"
    DEFAULT_FONT=1
  CUSTOM_BACKGROUND=1
  GRADIENT_BACKGROUND=256
  TRANSPARENT=128
  GRADIENT_COLOR="xclEnvBkLeftGradient"
  BACKGROUND_COLOR="xclEnvBk"
  RELATIVE_RIGHT_MARGIN=1
  RIGHT_MARGIN=0
  INDENTED_LEFT_MARGIN=0
  LEFT_MARGIN=0

add the following lines

SWITCH="\begin{cplusplus} .. \end{cplusplus}"
  ENABLED=1
  MODE_FILTER="TeX|INS;STY;AUX"
  START="\"
  STOP="\"
  HIGHLIGHT_START=0
  STEP_OVER_STOP=1
  HIGHLIGHT_STOP=0
  SCOPE=4
  DOMINANT_PRIORITY=0
  STRICT_PRIORITY=1
  PRIORITY=9
  INDENTED=0
  BOLN_ONLY=0
  CASE_SENSITIVE=1
  VERBATIM=1
  START1_TRIGGER=""
  START2_TRIGGER="begin{cplusplus}"
  STOP1_TRIGGER=""
  STOP2_TRIGGER="end{cplusplus}"
    TEXT_COLOR="xclVerbatim"
    DEFAULT_FONT=1
  CUSTOM_BACKGROUND=1
  GRADIENT_BACKGROUND=256
  TRANSPARENT=128
  GRADIENT_COLOR="xclEnvBkLeftGradient"
  BACKGROUND_COLOR="xclEnvBk"
  RELATIVE_RIGHT_MARGIN=1
  RIGHT_MARGIN=0
  INDENTED_LEFT_MARGIN=0
  LEFT_MARGIN=0

As you can see, the word "cplusplus" appears 4 times in the above code. Replace them with your custom environment name. Repeat it for all your custom environments.

At this point press Shift+Ctrl+F9 to reload the file.

That's all. Now your custom environments are not taken into consideration when building the document's tree.