Re: [Vim-latex-devel] can you modify these?

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

On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 05:58:21AM -0400, xitong chen wrote:

> Hello dear maintainers. I was very happy with vim-latex in the past years. However I have two modifications 
> which I would like you can take into consideration. For example if I press F5 when I was in insert mode I can choose equation*, and the output is
> 
> \begin{equation*}
>    cursor here
> \end{equation*}<++>
> 
> What I wish you could reconsider is the position of <++>. Many latex users, if my guess is correct, prefer typing latex file like
> 
> we have the follow equation
> \begin{equation*}
> 
>    my equation
> 
> \end{equation*}
> then by this equation we know...
> 
> So I really wish you could put <++> as 
> 
> \begin{equation*}
> 
>    cursor here
> 
> \end{equation*}
> <++>

It seems to me, that this behaviour can only be changed easily for all
environments and not especially for equation*. I am currently not sure,
if this makes sense for every environment. Are there more opinions on
this?

> Ok the next modification is about 
> 
> $cursor here$my equation$$
> 
> Since sometimes I just like to use $$ $$ for convenience. And of course you know vim-latex cannot recognize $$$$ well. It means if I press four $ continuously I got
> 
> $$<++>$<++>$<++>
> 
> and instead what I really want is
> 
> $$ cursor here $$
> 
> So could you please add an auto-recognition for latex-suite that if I press two $ then of course as normal it gives out $cursor here$<++> and if I press an extra $ consequently then it 
> recognize I want to have a $$ $$<++>

I believe this would require a major change, too, because the $$ mapping
will always be evaluated before you can type the third dollar sign.

Regards
Till