What is the fastest way to type greek letters in TeXStudio?

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The question is in the title. I am using TeXStudio for years now, and I find myself typing greek letters a lot (since I am a science student). What is the fastest way to do so, except start typing \alpha or \varepsilon and press enter as soon as I get correct autocomplete?

I am using a Windows 10, and I use 5 languages on my device. So clicking on windows+space twice to get greek keyboard and then thrice to get back english every now and then is also not much of a shortcut.

Can we have something like pressing `a will give \alpha and so on like in Sublime Text? Or any other keyboard shortcut possibly?

Perhaps the following is relevant TeXstudio left panel buttons. The star menu can be set up to show greek symbols. — Hendrik Jan, Oct 27 '21 at 17:11
This is definitely possible in Linux, with Compose key sequences. — Davislor, Oct 27 '21 at 21:59
Adding to what @Davislor said: WinCompose allows for the same functionality on Windows. I am using a dedicated „Greek“ key for that purpose: Greek + a => α, Greek + S => Σ etc. — Ingmar, Mar 26 '22 at 11:04
Adding to @Ingmar: The default sequence for a Greek letter in WinCompose is AltGr * then a letter, e.g. AltGr * V for Ω. — mins, Nov 11 '23 at 20:35

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 27 '21 at 15:34

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If you are familiar with vim, VIM-LaTeX would be a nice option for this. You can flexibly define your own shortcuts there. But for Greek letters there is already a mapping: `a through `z expand to \alpha through \zeta (see 3.5 Greek Letter Mappings).

answered Oct 27 '21 at 15:34

dexteritas

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No I am not familiar with Vim and I don't want to spend time on learning anything new in the middle of a semester. (And as I already hinted in my question, I don't want to leave TeXStudio, since it provides many many other shortcuts as well for improving speed. Sublime Text has the same set of shortcuts otherwise, that you've highlighted in your answer.) – Martund Oct 27 '21 at 16:26

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 26 '22 at 10:49

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You can write a macro for that. One is presented on official TeXStudio's wiki

https://github.com/texstudio-org/texstudio/wiki/Scripts#replace-characters-by-their-latex-equivalent-while-typing

answered Mar 26 '22 at 10:49

antshar

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What is the fastest way to type greek letters in TeXStudio?

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