[Vim-latex-devel] (La)TeX compilation

[Luc H. <her...@fr...>]

Hello Srinath.

* On Mon, Jul 14, 2003 at 06:46:01PM -0700, Srinath Avadhanula <sr...@fa...> wrote:
> On Tue, 15 Jul 2003, Luc Hermitte wrote:
> > Otherwise, I would have a request (partly implemented in my
> > ftplugin).  I'd like to have the choice of the way used to define
> > the main TeX document between:
> > - using a [bg]:dedicated_variable_for_this (whatever the final name
> >   is)
> > - or using mainfile.{theproject} (or another name i don't remember)
> >   as you originally planned
> > - or using a Makefile (if the right conditions are fulfilled)
> > - or using the name of the current buffer.
> >
> >
> For a while now, I have been thinking of a way to let the user be able
> to very easily specify the main file name in whatever way he
> chooses...
> Right now, a central function Tex_GetMainFileName() is called whenever
> a function needs the main tex file name (there are quite a few
> functions which need this info). Right now, Tex_GetMainFileName()
> checks for a {fname}.latexmain file and returns {fname} if possible,
> otherwise it just returns '' (the calling function is supposed to
> handle the case when it returns ''). There are various ways in which
> we could make this customizable.
> 
> Let the user define a variable g:Tex_MainFileExpr ('' by default)
> which latex-suite will use as:
> 
> if g:Tex_MainFileExpr != ''
>     exec 'let retval = '.g:Tex_MainFileExpr
>     return retval
> endif

If these 4 lines of code are present within Tex_GetMainFileName(), it
sounds perfect.

> You could then define g:Tex_MainFileExpr to be whatever you like. For
> instance, you could use your extended let-modeline function here (if I
> remember the nomenclature correctly).

Well ... This is the nomenclature I used, but I am not sure it is
English-proof.

> How does this sound? Is it sufficient? Or were you thinking of
> something else entirely?

I was thinking of a function that centralizes all this
mainfile-determination heuristic. 
=> the functions depending on the project's main-file are easy to
write/maintain.

-- 
Luc Hermitte
http://hermitte.free.fr/vim/