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

[Mikolaj M. <mi...@wp...>]

On Sun, Jul 20, 2003 at 06:28:11PM -0700, Srinath Avadhanula wrote:
> 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.

And uninstalling is the main reason to made this change.

> 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

I think we can move this files. The worst thing will be wave of mails:
This doesn't work, but advantages are more important (IMO of course).

> 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.

Yes, this is problem :/

BTW I have got from Bram positive answer for my request: .bbl files will
be recognized as tex filetype. 

m.