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

[Benji F. <be...@me...>]

Srinath Avadhanula wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> Happy New Year!

      Yes, let's have a productive 2003!  (Too many mathematicians on 
this list ... no, that's not a factorial. ;)

> The only remaining annoyance seems to be that for almost all
> eurpean users, the meta mappings come as a nasty surprise.
> For them <M-c> is a very commonly used key... I am presently
> thinking of ways to get around this...
> 
> A drastic step will be to remove the <M-c> mapping by
> defauly and instead provide a map <Plug>Tex_MathCal which
> provides the same functionality. The user if he wants can
> then do:
> 	nmap <M-c> <Plug>Tex_MathCal
> Unfortunately, since most users will be too lazy to do any
> customization, the really cool <M-l> mapping will be left
> unused by most of the english speaking latex users.
> 
> I know Luc would be happy if we took out the meta mappings.
> What do the others think? Is there a more elegant way of
> handing this? Maybe check encoding or something? Do people
> who like to use literal ?, ? and such use some encoding
> different from latin1 and utf8? We could make a somewhat
> more informed guess that way...
> 
> Srinath

      I agree with Luc.  We can make it a little easier by making it 
possible to turn several key mappings on or off with one setting.  I 
prefer pleasant surprises for those who read the docs to nasty surprises 
for those who do not. ;)

					--Benji