Re: [Vim-latex-devel] Seting TeX flavor properly in Vim7

[Till M. <ope...@ti...>]

On Tue August 5 2008, Ted Pavlic wrote:
> Till --
>
> 	Thanks for looking that up, but I'm not sure how it applies.
>
> 	As of Vim7, if you don't have:
>
> let g:tex_flavor='latex'
>
> then the default filetype behavior to a ".tex" file is to treat it as
> plaintex. In that case, Vim-LaTeX is not invoked at all and thus the
> texrc doesn't get run.

I have vim 7.1.245 from Fedora, which ships some tex.vim files. Nevertheless 
vim-latex is still run, e.g. the folding is still done by vim-latex and \ll 
runs latex. Maybe some features are not working, is there some minimal tex 
file where something does not work for you without setting tex_flavor? Or 
where may tex_flaveor be already set, it is not in my .vimrc or 
in /etc/vimrc.

> 	It looks like some native Vim compiler support was added in Vim7. That
> support wasn't there in 6, and so Vim-LaTeX would get started
> automatically. Now, in a vanilla Vim7 installation with no explicit
> g:tex_flavor set, Vim-LaTeX is ignored.

Here vim provides these files:
/usr/share/vim/vim71/compiler/tex.vim
/usr/share/vim/vim71/ftplugin/initex.vim
/usr/share/vim/vim71/ftplugin/plaintex.vim
/usr/share/vim/vim71/ftplugin/tex.vim
/usr/share/vim/vim71/syntax/initex.vim
/usr/share/vim/vim71/syntax/plaintex.vim
/usr/share/vim/vim71/syntax/tex.vim

I do not know how they interfer with vim-latex, though.

Regards,
Till