[Vim-latex-devel] Re: Review of vim-latex status

[Luc H. <her...@fr...>]

* On Thu, Dec 26, 2002 at 04:51:00PM -0800, Srinath Avadhanula <sr...@fa...> wrote:
> > Why? pdflatex thing works good enough. 

Not always. I used pst-uml for a C++ course I updated. As I had not
installed pdfTricks on my system (actually, I am not sure that miktex
supports pdfTricks), I wasn't able to use pdflatex. I had to use dvips +
ps2pdf. While I used pdflatex for the subjects of the exams.

> [...]
> if !hasmapto('Tex_MathBF', 'i') && mapcheck('<M-b>', 'i') == ''
> 	inoremap <buffer> <silent> <M-b> <C-r>=Tex_MathBF()<CR>
> endif

I see another problem here. Meta mappings are a pure headache!
As often as possible, I suggest that latex-suite does not propose them
by default. For instance, here <M-b> is linked to 'â' with my
configuration. That means, I will have to hit '<c-v>^age' if I want to
write 'âge' and not '\mathbf{ne}<++>'.

BTW, I prefer ']bf' (or ']mbf') to '<M-b>'. In the long run I'm
interrested in a single mapping that will insert '\textbf{}' or
'\mathbf{}' according to the context.

-- 
Luc Hermitte
http://hermitte.free.fr/vim/