SLext

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

SLext: Enhance Your Overleaf Editing Experience

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

Users: 460
-16
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:
Manifest version: 3
Size: 438.27K

Other platforms

Not available on Android
SLext (v1.8.0)
5.00 (3) 37
Not available on Edge
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Extension summary

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
User reviews
pretty good. hope the tab line can be narrower.
by Xinyu Zhang, 2024-09-06

kvadratisk, praktisk, god
by 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.
by Max, 2017-11-22
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Extension safety

Risk impact

SLext requires very minimum permissions.

Risk likelihood

SLext has earned a good reputation and can be trusted.

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