Re: [Vim-latex-devel] What to do about removed files?

[Alan S. <ala...@po...>]

* Srinath Avadhanula (sr...@fa...) wrote:
> I thought of something which looks even better :)
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> Suppose ftplugin/tex/texviewer.vim is a placeholder file kept there to
> overwrite the previous version. Then make a new
> ftplugin/tex/texviewer.vim which contains something like this:
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> ---- start ftplugin/tex/texviewer.vim -----
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> if g:Tex_DontRemoveTempFiles
>     finish
> endif
> augroup TexRemoveTempFiles
>     au VimLeave * :silent! call delete(expand('<sfile>:p'))
> augroup END
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> ---- end ftplugin/tex/texviewer.vim -----
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> This essentially means that ftplugin/tex/texviewer.vim essentially
> removes itself (suicide?) when latex-suite first runs and then the user
> exits. This means no more code addition in main.vim...
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> The initial "if g:Tex_DontRemoveTempFiles" is just so I can set
> g:Tex_DontRemoveTempFiles to ensure that the file doesn't keep
> dissapearing from my hard-disk when I do testing.
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> I think I'll use this strategy.

If this works, this is really neat ;-)

(and I'll keep that in my list of nice little vim hacks)

Alan

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