SLext

SLext enhances your editing experience on Overleaf by providing tabs, themes and more to the Overleaf website.

What is SLext?

SLext is an open source ShareLatex/Overleaf extension that adds features like file tabs, custom color schemes, favorite tabs, and quick file open to improve your editing experience. It also allows you to set a main file for compilation, quickly close tabs, open files under cursor, and hide remote cursors and flags.

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Extension stats

By: slext-team

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Users: 468 ▲ 12

Rating: 4.85 (13)

Version: 1.8.0 (Last updated: 2024-02-21)

Creation date: 2020-02-24

Risk impact: Low risk impact

Risk likelihood: Very low risk likelihood

Manifest version: 3

Size: 438.27K

Email: sl*****@googlegroups.com

Ranking

# 39906 ▲ 374

Other rankings

#8131 in Workflow & Planning ▲ 18 #171 in cursors keyword 80 ▲ 1

Other platforms

SLext (v1.8.0)

5.00

(3) 29

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Extension summary

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Open source ShareLatex/Overleaf extension that adds features for an improved editing experience!

Features include:

File tabs
Custom color schemes for the interface
Favorite tabs with Alt+d
Quick-open files with Alt+p
Set a main file to compile with the "Compile main" button
Quickly closing a tab by pressing Alt+w
Opening the file under your cursor in a document by pressing Alt+g
Hiding remote cursors and flags

User reviews

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Pros

Idyllic design
Amazing functionality
Features like adding tabs, search options and favorite tabs are very useful

Cons

The tabs do not save

Most mentioned

Improves ShareLatex online editor significantly
Buggy tab feature needing a fix
Greatly enhances user experience

Recent reviews

pretty good. hope the tab line can be narrower.

Xinyu Zhang, 2024-09-06

kvadratisk, praktisk, god

jens aagaard, 2018-04-18

It is a very useful extension for everyone using ShareLatex online editor. The tab feature makes the editor so much more functional, especially for large projects. There's but one small problem - the tabs don't save at the moment. However, it's only a bug that's hopefully going to get fixed soon.