Re: [Vim-latex-devel] View document in another directory

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

On Sat, 19 Jun 2004, Luc Hermitte wrote:

> * On Fri, Jun 18, 2004 at 04:58:55PM -0700, Srinath Avadhanula <sr...@fa...> wrote:
> > Actually you can make it work with !start too. Here's a little demo:
> >
> > Open vim (not necessarily with latex-suite activated) and do:
> >   let &mp = 'start gvim $*'
> >   silent! make! %
> > you will need gvim.exe to be in your windows $PATH of course. You should
> > see another instance of gvim startup and attempt to reread the file....
>
> I though of this solution, but it does not indicate us if the file is
> not found, and neither v:shell_error nor :copen are of any help [1]. And
> even more important:
>     let &makeprg='AcroRd32 $*.pdf'
>     silent make foo
> works, but
>     let &makeprg='start AcroRd32 $*.pdf'
>     silent make foo
> does not.
>

Yes. You're right... I have followed your previous idea of just creating
an imitation of vim's native :make utility. For now, we just substitute
$* with the main file name, but in the future it could be as general
purpose as vim's own.

Srinath