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

[Aditya M. <ad...@um...>]

Hi Srinath,

Today  Srinath Avadhanula wrote about Re: [Vim-latex-devel] Delete Menus...

>Aditya,
>
>> 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).
>
I understand, you guys are also under a lot of pressure and to have
developed such a great package does take a lot of time and effort.
>
>> 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.
>

I did not know about this feature. This is close to what I want. I tried
with
 TexLet g:Tex_MenuPrefix="Late&x-Suite."

and then tearoff Tex-Suite

This works fine for my requirements. Infact what I find better is
 TexLet g:Tex_MenuPrefix="]Latex-Suite"
 and then tear-off. This way, it does not clutter my menu space at all,
and as I use the menu infrequently, this is just about perfect.

Thanks for your help

Cheers
Aditya

>HTH
>Srinath
>