[Vim-latex-devel] Re: Bug#206050: vim-latexsuite File explorer won't work

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

On Tue, 19 Aug 2003, Artur R. Czechowski wrote:

> > 1. Make a release of latex-suite which restores plugin/explorer.vim to
> >    exactly the one which ships with vim without any of our
> >    modifications.
> For me there is no reason to do it. Uninstalling a vim-latexsuite
> automagically restores an original vim's files (there are two for now:
> plugin/explorer.vim and compiler/tex.vim).
>
Okay... this simplifies things. Just make a release which does not
contain a file called plugin/explorer.vim then. I haven't heard from
Mikolaj since I wrote him a few days back. Looks like hes on a break or
otherwise busy.

I was thinking of making a very concentrated extract from explorer.vim
which basically works specifically for just choosing files. Something
like :ChooseFile which will be a _lot_ simpler than explorer.vim and
therefore can be a lot smaller.

> > 2. After that, subsequent releases of latex-suite will not contain
> >    a file called plugin/explorer.vim. If we do require some
> >    functionality which compels us to use a modified explorer.vim, then
> >    we will call it something different say plugin/tex_explorer.vim and
> >    do the modifications there. However, I maintain that it will be much
> >    nicer if we can do without a duplicate.
> What was the reasons to create a splitted version of this file? I have
> looked into diff beetwen original file and yours one, there are quite some
> differences...

I beleive that there was something to be done with project files or
something. However, that part of the project is not "active" right now.
At some point, Mikolaj planned on letting users also define a
g:Tex_ProjectFiles variable or the like which explicitly lists the files
used in the current project. As of now, this does not seem to be
necessary because g:Tex_BIBINPUTS and g:Tex_TEXINPUTS seem to be able to
handle everything which latex itself can recognize.

Srinath

> PS. Hmm... I should update my Geek Code...

Oops. Didn't get this :)