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ABSTRACT An article illustrating the use of Sublime Text for creating complex documents, with a focus on legal briefs written in LaTeX. INDEX 1. This article is about LaTeX and Sublime Text. 2. The bad news: LaTeXTools is out of date. 3. Placeholders and Variables. 4. Multiple cursors. 5. Paste lists of documents copied from folders. 6. Create and use bookmarks. 7. Persistence of open documents. 8. Snippet for the creation of Sections. 9. A useful little “script”. 10. Compilation, viewers and other commands. 11. Conclusion. 1. This article is about LaTeX and Sublime Text. The outstanding typographic quality of LaTeX cannot be doubted. To manage complex documents in LaTeX, however, one needs to use editors that allow one to quickly perform a number of operations including: Quickly jumping between the titles of the various levels of sections. Quickly compile variables and other related data by jumping between preset bookmarks, Quickly compil...

ABSTRACT Article on comparative handling of multiple cursors in Sublime Text, Visual Studio Code and Vim. 1. Multiple cursors? Multi-cursors? What are we talking about? 2. Who "invented" multiple cursors? 3. Multiple cursors in Sublime Text 3 and 4. 4. Multiple cursors in Visual Studio Code. 5. Comparison of Sublime Text and Visual Studio Code. 6. Vim and the built-in multiple editing functions. 7. Effective multi cursors also on Vim. 1. Multiple cursors? Multi-cursors? What are we talking about? What are multiple cursors? An example is worth more than many words: imagine that you have a list consisting of a hundred lines and you have to insert a certain characters, for example a pair of asterisks, at the beginning and at the end of each term in the list. Try performing the operation manually a hundred times and then measuring the time spent! Now imagine, instead, entering those characters once for all the rows but using a hundred or so cursors si...

Abstract: How are four generalist editors, i.e., designed to be used with a wide range of programming languages and text files, performing when writing documents in Markdown language? This is the subject of this article based on my personal experiences in using Vim, Emacs, Sublime Text 4 and Visual Studio Code both directly and with extensions dedicated to the above mentioned markup language. 1. Introduction. 2. Vim and Markdown. 2.1. Vim without plugins . 2.2. Vim with the plugin vim-markdown. 2.3. Vim with the plugin UltiSnips. 2.4. Vim and Markdown preview. 3. Emacs and Markdown. 3.1. Emacs without plugins . 3.2. Emacs with markdown-mode . 3.3. Emacs and preview in Markdown. 4. Sublime Text 4 and Markdown. 4.1. Sublime Text 4 without plugins . 4.2. Sublime Text 4 with the plugin "MarkdownEditing". 4.3. Sublime Text 4 and preview in Markdown. 5. Visual Studio Code and Markdown. 5.1. VSCode without plugins 5.2. VSCode with ...