Re: [Vim-latex-devel] Help with Compile

[Alan S. <ala...@po...>]

* Tom Newman (new...@US...) wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm trying to figure out why I can't get the compiler to work with
> LaTeX-Suite.

I had this problem, so I wrote a small patch for compiler.vim. This
patch makes the following behavior change:
- if a something.latexmain file is present, "\ll" calls latex on that
  file instead of make
- otherwise, if no something.latexmain exists, it either calls make if
  there is a Makefile, or it calls latex on the current file.

Here is the patch (to apply on today's cvs)
schmitta@alan-schm1p:/usr/src/latexvim/vimfiles/ftplugin/latex-suite> cvs diff                     
Index: compiler.vim
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/vim-latex/vimfiles/ftplugin/latex-suite/compiler.vim,v
retrieving revision 1.22
diff -u -p -r1.22 compiler.vim
--- compiler.vim        4 Mar 2003 22:58:13 -0000       1.22
+++ compiler.vim        24 Mar 2003 14:16:29 -0000
@@ -90,17 +90,11 @@ function! RunLaTeX()
        " close any preview windows left open.
        pclose!
 
-       " If a *.latexmain file is found, then use that file to
-       " construct a main file.
-       if Tex_GetMainFileName() != ''
-               let mainfname = Tex_GetMainFileName()
-       else
-               " otherwise just use this file.
+       " if a makefile and no *.latexmain exists, just use the make utility
+       " this also sets mainfname for the rest of the function
+       let mainfname = Tex_GetMainFileName()
+       if (glob('makefile') != '' || glob('Makefile') != '') && mainfname == ''
                let mainfname = expand("%:t:r")
-       endif
-
-       " if a makefile exists, just use the make utility
-       if glob('makefile') != '' || glob('Makefile') != ''
                let _makeprg = &l:makeprg
                let &l:makeprg = 'make $*'
                if exists('s:target')
@@ -110,6 +104,11 @@ function! RunLaTeX()
                endif
                let &l:makeprg = _makeprg
        else
+       " otherwise, if a *.latexmain file is found, then use that file to
+       " construct a main file.
+               if mainfname == ''
+                       let mainfname = expand("%:t:r")
+               endif
                exec 'make '.mainfname
        endif
 

Hope this helps,

Alan


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