Re: [Vim-latex-devel] Delete Menus when done with editing tex file

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

Aditya,

On Sat, 20 Sep 2003, Aditya Mahajan wrote:

> Hi,
>  There is something that I find a little irritating with the latex-suite
> package. The menus are excellent but they occupy a lot of space on the
> gui. So whenever I am finished with the editing of the latex file, I do
> not want the menu anymore. There are other menus that I want to use, but
> there is no way in which the latex-suite menus can be turned off when I
> do not need them.
>  Is there some way in which the filetype menus can be associated with
> the local buffer, so that when I delete the buffer containing the tex
> file then the tex menu is automatically deleted.
>  Another mehtod could be that there is something like
>  au BufLeave FileType=tex call delteMenu() <CR>
>
This topic has come up in the past, and unfortunately, I have been
putting a damper on things. We thought of something like

au BufEnter * :call Tex_CheckMenus()

(note BufEnter instead of BufLeave). Tex_CheckMenus() will check if the
buffer being entered is a tex buffer and if so, leave the menus intact
if they are already present and regerate the menus if they no longer
exist.  Otherwise it will kill the menus. However, regenerating menus is
a very time-consuming process and I beleive it will be more of an
annoyance than a time-saver. Also, the menus which are created by
Latex-suite are not created by a single function but by various
sub-functions distributed in various scripts. For something like this to
work, those things will have to pulled together... Better still, all
those various places will create menus independently, but on a
LatexSuiteCreateMenus event which could be fired from Tex_CheckMenus as
needed.

You know, I do not want to veto against this or anything. As of right
now, I am running short on time, so this might have to wait for a while
(3-4 weeks).


> where delteMenu is a function that deletes the menu.
>
> Otherwise it could be a entry (with a corresponding command) in the
> tex-Suite menu. This will be a much better option as I am not sure how
> the previous two will affect the speed of gvim. As it is gvim runs
>
The other method of listing all of latex-suite's menus under a single
master menu is already possible. Unfortunately, this does not seem to be
documented :( You have to set the value of g:Tex_MenuPrefix to something
which includes a '.' in it. The default value is 'TeX'. This creates
TeX-Suite, TeX-Packages etc. If you set it to 'Latex-Suite.' then all
menus will be nested under the 'Latex-Suite' menu.

HTH
Srinath