Re: [Vim-latex-devel] Template names missing: OS X

[Gerd W. <ger...@ma...>]

Hi,

to me, this looks like a bug in vim itself.

Best regards,
Gerd


On 2017-12-24 15:29, Daryl Lee wrote:
> Thanks for the response!
> 
> By the way, this is Vim-Latex 1.9.0.
> 
> Here is more data.  I tried the following variants (beginning with the i 
> that numbers the item):
> 
> i."<Tab>".fname."  "    Produces "1"
> 
> i.":<Tab>".fname." "   Produces "1:"
> 
> i.":".fname." "   Produces "1:article"
>    (No space after the colon)
> 
> i.": ".fname." "   Produces "1:"
>    (Space after the colon)
> 
> Also, there is nothing after the word Compile (or any of its siblings) 
> in the TeX-Suite menu.  So, feeling brave, I opened texmenuconf.vim and 
> on line 56 deleted the <Tab> after the word "Compile" and got the -ll. 
> When I added a space after "Compile", the -ll disappeared.
> 
> So, recognizing that both <Tab> and space are whitespace, I'll be 
> looking at how whitespace is handled.
> 
> On 12/24/17 1:11 AM, Gerd Wachsmuth wrote:
>> Hi Daryl,
>>
>> this is weird. In fact, `:help creating-menus` states:
>> >>>>>>>>>
>> Special characters in a menu name:
>>
>> <Tab>    Separates the menu name from right-aligned text. This can be
>>     used to show the equivalent typed command.  The text "<Tab>"
>>     can be used here for convenience.  If you are using a real
>>     tab, don't forget to put a backslash before it!
>> >>>>>>>>>
>>
>> Hence, a "<Tab>" is perfectly fine here. Do you have right-aligned 
>> text in the other menus, e.g. right of "Compile", you should find "ll"??
>>
>>
>> Best regards
>> Gerd
>>
>>
>> On 2017-12-24 03:44, Daryl Lee wrote:
>>> Okay, in case this question comes up again, here is *A* solution 
>>> (there may be better, but I'm a near-total VimScript newbie:
>>>
>>> I deleted the <TAB> in line 24 of templates.vim:
>>>
>>> " SetTemplateMenu: sets up the menu for templates {{{
>>> function! <SID>SetTemplateMenu()
>>>      let flist = <SID>FindInTemplateDir('')
>>>      let i = 1
>>>      while 1
>>>          let fname = Tex_Strntok(flist, ',', i)
>>>          if fname == ''
>>>              break
>>>          endif
>>> "        exe "amenu 
>>> ".g:Tex_TemplatesMenuLocation."&".i.":<Tab>".fname." ".
>>>          exe "amenu ".g:Tex_TemplatesMenuLocation."&".i.":".fname." ".
>>>              \":call <SID>ReadTemplate('".fname."')<CR>"
>>>          let i = i + 1
>>>      endwhile
>>> endfunction
>>>
>>> And then closed all Vim windows and opened .tex file.
>>>
>>> According to one of the earlier posters on this problem, the issue 
>>> arises in other menus as well.  I'll remember this in case I need it 
>>> later.
>>>
>>>
>>> On 12/23/17 7:10 PM, Daryl Lee wrote:
>>>> I'm installing Vim-LaTeX on all my workstations (OS X, Windows 10, 
>>>> and four Ubuntu).  First, kudos to the people who brought this to 
>>>> the state that it's in; very impressive.  The first thing I noticed 
>>>> in OS X (from MacVim) is that when I click TeX-Suite->Templates, I 
>>>> get a list of numbers 1: through 4:, but without the name of the 
>>>> template. The templates work (at least 'article' and 'IEEEtran', 
>>>> which I picked by looking at the contents of the 'templates' file.
>>>>
>>>> How do I get the actual file names to show up?
>>>>
>>>> This question was asked in 2010 and 2011 by different people and 
>>>> apparently never answered.  I thought I might try again.
>>>>
>>>
>>
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