Re: [Vim-latex-devel] help needed with \ll and \lv shortcuts

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

Hey Charlie,

On Fri, 10 Jan 2003, Charles Boncelet wrote:

> Even weirder in the my version (a few days old), type "I am here".  The
> double quotes get changed to two left quotes, which then trigger the `I
> substitution and you get `\int...
>
> Also fix for `I (which gives int).  The others (lines 90-116 in my
> main.vim) might occur, but are less likely.  If the fix is easy, fix for
> them also.
>
> Some bugs:  When I type `i or `j or `o (letters not in greek) I get an
> error: Undefined variable s:greek_i etc. instead of `i etc.
>

All these problems have been taken care of in the latest version... I
wonder if I have made a release... Yes... I see the latest files on the
download page of latex-suite have these fixes...


> The issue of what to use as a Tex_Leader is interesting.  Some years
> ago, I did my own mappings (when vim was much more primative) with ",".
> The idea is that in English a comma is almost always followed by
> whitespace.  The same holds true for semi-colon ";".  Both make good
> leaders.  A period "." can also be used (as in nroff)

Yes... When I first started this project, I should have thought a bit
more about what leader character to use. I admit, in retrospect, ';'
would have made a most excellent choice. I think I have _never_ used a ;
in all of my latex writing and its so nicely placed...

Having said that, its still possible that some people might like to
customize their leader settings to be '`' because its a somewhat
commonly used vim <leader>. In that case, they would have had problems.
The present solution allows people to have Tex_Leader as '`' and still
continue using latex-suite smoothly.

> A left quote is a little more problematic.  It is used for diacritical
> marks (as you note) and for double left quotes in Latex.  Many
> experienced latex authors automatically type `` at the beginning of a
> quote.
>
Yes... Well, take some consolation in the fact that for the first couple
of days of the project, I used '\' as the default!!! Imagine the havoc
that caused. :)

> If this were a brand new project, I'd suggest using one of "," or ";"
> for latex-suite macros and leaving the other one for user defined
> macros.
>
Well, unfortunately, it really isn't a brand new project... And since I
have solved the problem with using Tex_Leader = '`', I will let it
remain as it is.. (at least till someone reports an even more serious
problem).

Srinath