Re: [Vim-latex-devel] when \ll does not work, I cannot see the error window

[Dan M. O. H. <dm...@st...>]

Den 4. juni 2010 kl. 16.26 skrev Sébastien Barthélemy:

> Hello,
> 
> I'm trying out vim-latex and I get a problem when compiling a (any) document.
> 
> With MacVim 7.2, when I hit \ll a buffer with errors appears and then
> disappears too
> fast for me to read them.
> 
> With VIM 7.2 in a terminal, I get the same problem, but the buffer
> disappears a little bit later.
> 
> Is it normal for this buffer to disappear? If yes, how can I read it?
> 
> I eventually understood that it was not compiling because of a
> Makefile that was lying around. Maybe that could be mentioned in the
> FAQ [1]?
> 
> [1] http://vim-latex.sourceforge.net/index.php?subject=faq&title=FAQ#faq-compiling

I guess what you see is the stdout, which is not really a buffer. In general, setting
:let g:Tex_Debug=1
before you compile, and running
:call Tex_PrintDebug()
afterwards may give some hints. I'm not sure if there is a way to retrieve the 
stdout afterwards without modifying vim-latex, but there probably is :)

Makefiles can be disabled by setting Tex_UseMakefile to 0:
http://vim-latex.sourceforge.net/documentation/latex-suite/customizing-compiling.html#Tex_UseMakefile

But I also think the FAQ could warn about makefiles, since it's a potential pitfall one might not be aware of.

Dan Michael