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

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

Srinath Avadhanula wrote:
> Hello Artem,
> 
>>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..

      Just yesterday, I updated teTeX on my Linux system, with the 
latest RPM's from Red Hat, and now tex understands the -interaction 
option.  I still think that a lot of people are using older 
distributions of tex.  It has been a long time since there was an 
official release of teTeX.  True, a lot of people have switched to the 
beta version, which supportsd this option; in fact, I am not sure which 
version is in the RPM I downloaded.  If this is the only place where 
escaping backslashes is an issue, and that is still causing problems, 
then it is a judgment call.

      For someone using an old version of tex, how hard will it be to 
fix the problem if the default is changed?

>>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

      Is there any way to guess which is more common:  ancient versions 
of tex or cygwin installations?

					--Benji