Re: [Vim-latex-devel] preference for default target

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

Hello,

On Tue, 2 Sep 2003, Alan Schmitt wrote:
> I am very often writing latex documents in collaboration with other
> people, who use a Makefile with a target "all" to compile the paper.
> I would like to change a preference so that as soon as a Makefile is
> present, the default target is "all" (and not ps or dvi). Where can

You need to use the g:Tex_MainFileExpression described in the user
manual:

http://vim-latex.sourceforge.net/documentation/latex-suite/latex-master-file.html

In particular, put the following snippet of code in
~/.vim/after/ftplugin/tex/mainfile.vim

---------------------------%<---------------------------
let g:Tex_MainFileExpression = 'MainFile(modifier)'
function! MainFile(fmod)
    " whenever a makefile is present in the file being edited, then set
    " target to all. This will make pressing \ll result in running
    " !make all
    if glob('makefile') != ''
        TCTarget all
    endif
    if glob('*.latexmain') != ''
        return fnamemodify(glob('*.latexmain'), a:fmod)
    else
        return ''
    endif
endfunction
---------------------------%<---------------------------

NOTE: Any location which gets sourced after tex_latexSuite.vim on the
filetype event will do.

The Tex_MainFileExpression is exec'd whenever latex-suite needs to find
out which file needs to be compiled. If you put some code to set the
target in it as above, then it will also change the target.

HTH
Srinath