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

[Luc H. <her...@fr...>]

* On Wed, Jun 16, 2004 at 09:38:38PM -0700, Srinath Avadhanula <srinath@f=
astmail.fm> wrote:
> Hmm... This does look like it might be a better way of doing things.
> The thing which confuses me is why vim is not doing
>     :runtime! compiler/tex.vim
> automatically when you open a tex file even though we have "filetype
> plugin on". Does vim only do:
>     :runtime! ftplugin/tex.vim
> when you open a tex file?!=20

More or less yes.=20
(-> :runtime! ftplugin/tex.vim ftplugin/tex_*.vim ftplugin/tex/*.vim)

> (I am surprised I didn't know this already if its true) Its not
> mentioned anywhere in the docs that you have to manually source the
> compiler ftplugin IIRC.

They are not compiler ftplugin, but just compiler plugins IIRC.

And vim can not know which ones must be sourced. The typical example is
with C++ code. Vim can not guess if we are using VC++, BCB, DM C/C++,
GCC, Open Watcom, ... Which means we can not have it automatically load
any compiler plugin.

(La)TeX is a special case as every (La)TeX compilers use the same &efm.
Hence we can have only one compiler/tex.vim which is common to
(fpTeX\|MiKTeX\|...)::(pdf(La)TeX\|(La)TeX\|...)

It is not the same with the other languages.

> > If t63 is loaded first, then tls will override the definitions that
> > need to be overriden, and LaTeXSuite will ignore the other ones I
> > guess. If tls is loaded first, then it can set =ABcurrent_compiler=BB
> > which will abort the sourcing of t63.
>=20
> ... I guess that if I have latex-suite's compiler/tex.vim NOT finish
> even if 'current_compiler' exists and set it to 'latex' when it does
> get sourced, then it will handle both cases. Have to check this a bit
> thoroughly.=20

I think so. Moreover, this is what is said at the end of
    :h write-compiler-plugin

Otherwise, it seems it is already the case as =AB:compiler tex=BB fixes t=
he
problem AFAIC -- when LaTeXSuite is at the end of 'runtimepath'.

--=20
Luc Hermitte
http://hermitte.free.fr/vim/