Re: [Vim-latex-devel] First steps with LS (at last)

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

On Thu, 17 Jun 2004, Luc Hermitte wrote:

> I'm doing my first steps with LaXeX-suite (at last) and I have run into
> a little bug -- if we can call it a bug.
>
> It is easy to reproduce on my box:
>     $> gvim foo.tex
>     \ll
> And then Vim complains about s:target not defined into Tex_RunLaTeX().
>
> Once :TTarget called, and \ll typed again, vim complains about :TCLevel
> beeing undefined.
>
> After investigations, it seems that =AB:compiler tex=BB is not executed -=
-
> when I executed this, I only have one complain about a command redefined
> and then \ll can be used.
>
> It that normal ? Or is there a bug in my installation ? (LS beeing
> installed into ~/vimfiles/latex-suite which is the last directory of my
> 'runtimepath').

I remember that sourcing the compiler plugin was always a bit of
a problem... I remember that it was some subtle bug in vim itself (or
lack of documentation)... I see the following lines in main.vim:

=09" This line seems to be necessary to source our compiler/tex.vim file.
=09" The docs are unclear why this needs to be done even though this file i=
s
=09" the first compiler plugin in 'runtimepath'.
=09runtime compiler/tex.vim

So it looks like there was always a problem with getting latex-suite's
tex/compiler.vim file to get sourced... Now that you put latex-suite at
the end of the 'rtp', then latex-suite's compiler/tex.vim will not be
sourced by the above line (:runtimepath only sources the first
compiler/tex.vim found which will be vim's standard compiler/tex.vim).

Anyway...

The standard way of using latex-suite is to unzip it in your ~/vimfiles
directory which will create ~/vimfiles/compiler/tex.vim which will in
turn get sourced by the above line when you open a .tex file.

Don't know exactly what goes wrong in situations like yours... Has to do
with how vim sources compiler plugins when a .tex file is opened...

Srinath

PS: Hope latex-suite is useful :)