[Vim-latex-devel] Re: Your compiler/tex.vim plugin

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

Hello Artem,

I am forwarding this to the vim-latex-devel group also because it is of
interest.

On Sun, 19 Jan 2003, Artem Chuprina wrote:

> SA> i found out that the %f flag actually looks for a valid file, i.e if its
> SA> not readable then it doesnt match. therefore the 'haha' thingie broke
> SA> the parsing. however, sometimes things like this do happen in actual
> SA> compilation:
>
> SA> [10] (file1 (badness 1000) file3 (
>
> For badness such a message is impossible, because it is always a part of
> underfull warning message. But I tried to fit other such possibilities
> (actually unknown for me). Diff is attached. I'll send it to Bram after a
> little more testing, so I'll thank you if you test this patch too and send me
> a bugreport if you find bugs.
>
> SA> where the badness warnings occur because of improber \hbox placements.
> SA> the following simple thing therefore seems to work around the problem:
>
> SA> > 1   \%+O(%f)%r,
>
> SA> %O(%*[^()])%r
>
> as is this does not help, because in this situation it was not this O who eats
> closing parenthesis (line does not begin with opening parenthesis, so O does
> not match). See the diff.
>
Thanks! I will test this.

> SA> also, another thing which you might want to do in your makeprg setting
> SA> is the following:
>
> SA> if has('win32')
> SA> 	set &makeprg = 'latex -interaction=nonstopmode $*'
> SA> endif
>
> SA> this is how miktex likes it.
>
> Well, I discovered that teTeX likes this too, so I changed makeprg to this
> version.
>
This might be of quite a bit of interest to the vim-latex-devel people.
Benji was concerned that the -interaction=nonstopmode (I thought it was
--interaction but it looks like -interaction works too for miktex) will
break tex compilers and that the \\nonstopmode is a better alternative.
If it is true that most if not all latex compilers can handle
-interaction style syntax, it will take care of the old backslash
escaping problem once and for all..

> SA> yet another thingie which broke when i used it with bash/cygwin is that
> SA> external programs get executed as following:
>
> SA>   !bash -c "latex \\nonstopmode \\input\{thesis.tex\}"
>
> why not
>
> !bash -c 'latex \\nonstopmode \\input\{thesis.tex\}'
>

Yes... I guess I could have changed the value of shellquote. Vim guesses
'shellquote' to be " when I do :set shell=bash in my .vimrc...

Srinath