Re: [Vim-latex-devel] BibTex Macros

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

> I have been using your LaTex Suite for Vim for a little while now and
> have found some of the features quite handy.  However, I'm having
> trouble with the BibTex macros.  They don't seem to be properly
> recognized when I'm editing a .tex or .bib file.  IOW, typing BBB does
> nothing.  Any ideas?

BBB works for me when I open up a .bib file. It will not work in .tex
files... Make sure that when you open a .bib file &ft is set to bib.
IOW,
    :set ft?
should say "bib". If it doesn't the problem is outside of latex-suite.
You might be having a missing autocommand or something. Try putting

au BufEnter *.bib :set ft=bib

in your ~/.vimrc and retry.

> Also, there is a nice command to compile the file with latex.  Is there
> anything similar for compiling with BibTex?

As of now, latex-suite doesn't compile bib files OOTB. This will involve
writing a new compiler/bib.vim file which recognizes errors from bib
files and tweaks to compiler.vim. So this might have to wait a bit
while we work on a few pending bugs.

Thanks,

Srinath