Re: [Vim-latex-devel] Re: [Vim-latex-cvs] vimfiles/plugin imaps.vim,1.7,1.8

[Srinath A. <sr...@fa...>]

Okay, Benji and Luc have convinced me. Let's get on with the great
change :) But before that, I would like to have a little bit of thought
about whats the best thing to change these things to.

Option 1:
    change things like '\onlyslides{=AB=BB}=AB=BB' to "\\onlyslides{\xab\xb=
b}\xab\xbb"
    I am wondering however, whether this will create problems with
    people who use international character sets etc. Ofcourse, now the
    files themselves will be easily readable, but I wonder if the way
    "\xab" displays on the screen depends on the locale which the user is
    currently using etc. A disadvantage of something like this will be
    that the vim scripts themselves will look pretty ugly with "\xab"
    kinda things all over the place...

Option 2:
    Change it to something like "\\onlyslides{<++>}<++>"
    Here the placeholder (or marker) characters are "<+" and "+>".
    Now the characters (and the vim scripts) will be correctly displayed
    across all platforms/locales etc. The problem with this approach,
    ofcourse is that we are using 2 characters instead of 1. This will
    make the expansions generally longer... Ofcourse, the users can
    still set g:Imap_PlaceHolder* to some different single width chars
    if they so desire...
    The advantage in this method is that the change will be very easy to
    implement. Just doing a simple
    % s/=AB\(.\{-}\)=BB/<+\1+>/g
    should suffice... In option 1, because of the \, we will have to
    careful about the difference between '\frac{=E4}{=AB=BB}=AB=BB' and
    "\\frac{=E4}{=AB=BB}=AB=BB".
    Also in option 2, the scripts will be lot more readable.
    The danger in option 2 ofcourse is that in some situation, the user
    has things like "<+" in the file independent of latex-suite. (But in
    that case, the user can use a different value for the placeholders).

Hmm.... As you can imagine, I am leaning towards option 2. Are there any
other suggestions?

On Sun, 8 Dec 2002, Luc Hermitte wrote:

> May be you could wrap these call into commands that will automatically
> build the different environments and TeX commands.
> That's what I've done in my lh-tex package. Thus, patching the files
> will be quite easy. [1]
>

The way things work now in latex-suite is that things like

let s:figure =3D "\\begin{figure}[=ABhtpb=BB]\<cr>\\begin{center}..."

are defined. When Imap_PutTextWithMovement is called it attempts to
replace =AB=BB chars with the thing defined in g:Imap_PlaceHolder*. In a wa=
y
therefore, latex-suite does actually wrap the commands into a central
function.

>   call <SID>MapMenu4Env("50.370.200", '&LaTeX.&Environments.&itemize',
>       \ ']ei', 'itemize', '\item ')
>   that also defines 3 mappings and 3 menus. The insert mode mapping
>   ']ei' inserts:
>     \begin{itemize}
>     \item =B5
>     \end{itemize}=AB=BB
>

Wont this also create exactly the same problems we are seeing now. For
example, I am replying to this mail in vim with encoding=3Dlatin1. When I
switch to utf8, the \mu character looks like <b5> etc...

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Srinath Avadhanula
Dec 8 2:40pm
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