[Vim-latex-devel] A question about placing files

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

Hello

I wanted to get a few opinions on whether the current directory tree of
latex-suite is optimal for the long run. As of now, latex-suite has
files in the following hierarchy:

~/.vim
    - plugin/
        - imaps.vim
        - syntaxFolds.vim
        - etc.
    - ftplugin/
        - tex_latexSuite.vim
        - tex/
            - texviewer.vim
            - brackets.vim
        - latex-suite/
            - main.vim
            - compiler.vim
            - etc.

A few months ago, when we began extending latex-suite with Carl
Mueller's addons, (brackets.vim etc) we decided that a good place for
them to go was in ~/.vim/ftplugin/tex/. But now I am having second
thoughts... For one, making new addons reside in the tex/ directory
means that if for instance the user wants to uninstall latex-suite, then
he will have to remove each individual file from there. If all files of
latex-suite resided in latex-suite/ except for a few necessary ones in
other places, uninstalling is much easier.

The files which we already distribute in the tex/ directory will most
probably need to stay there for the sake of compatibility, but should we
be creating a new directory addons/ in latex-suite and putting new stuff
there and then let main.vim do something like

    :runtime! ftplugin/latex-suite/addons/*.vim

There is(are) some disadvantages:
1. Vim sources files in the tex/ directory for every Filetype tex event.
   We will have to write code to do this for files in the addons/
   directory.

Let me know what your views are.

Thanks,
Srinath