Re: [Vim-latex-devel] some questions about main.vim

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

Srinath Avadhanula wrote:
>>Why is silent used only in has('gui')?
>>
> 
> When I try to execute a <silent> command like ":silent !latex %" or such
> from within a console vim, my vim display gets overwritten by the
> display of the commanad. (I tested this using the console vim which
> ships with cygwin) I then have to press <C-l> to get back... A newbie
> might get into a total panic if something like that happens... With gvim
> ofcourse, a seperate window is spawned... Doesn't this problem occur
> with console vim's in *nix?

      I am not sure about the console, but in an xterm I get a "Hit 
ENTER" prompt and then vim comes back to me.

>>2. Does the comment about compiler/tex.vim mean that ":compiler tex" was
>>tried and did not work?
> 
> 
> I haven't tried this in a long while... Let me see... No ":compiler tex"
> doesn't seem to work. I haven't looked into this in a while. Maybe our
> compiler/tex.vim needs to set some global variable so vim's compiler
> doesn't overwrite ours... It looks like ":compiler tex" does source our
> compiler/tex.vim but also vim's compiler/tex.vim...

      Unbder :help :compiler,

What this command actually does is:
- delete the "current_compiler" variable
- execute ":runtime! compiler/{name}.vim"

First non-comment lines of the standard compiler/tex.vim :

if exists("current_compiler")
	finish
endif

It then sets g:current_compiler to "latex" or whatever is specified by 
b:tex_flavor or g:tex_flavor .

					--Benji