[Vim-latex-devel] feature request and some remarks

[Lars W. <lar...@we...>]

Hi,

i have some remarks about the latexSuite20041219 tarball found on
sourceforge.

* The package scanning only scans the current file or if exists the
  latexmain file. 
   - What happens if more than one latexmain file exists?
     Will only the first found be used?
   - Should the scanning not do something like scan latexmain file and
     the current buffer.

* I couldn't find any documentation on texproject.vim i.e. that the
  bla.latexmain is included via source.

* the b:fragmentFile option seems to be undocumented, too.
   - This was the reason my hunting around started at all.
     I just wanted to include some header files in my current tex file
     and it seemed like latex-suite only supports a 1:n and 1:1
     relationship of inclusion i.e. one master includes n other files
     or one file to be compiled includes a fragment file via setting
     the b:fragmentFile option to 1 but not the notion of one file includes
     a handfull of header files.
   - So my feature request is to provide a mechanism to include more
     than one file in the current file. In a way that all files get
     scanned for packages and such. Maybe an easy way would be to
     provide a b:fragmentFileList variable that would just contain
     a <some delimiter> separated list of paths to the header files.
     And additionally source the current file for packages + the
     latex-master file and all files included via b:fragmentFileList or
     something like that.

* The behaviour of jumping to the directory of the bla.latexmain file is not
  documented in in the latex-suite.txt file.
   - if b:fragmentFile is set the Tex_CompileLatex function in
     compiler.vim seems to work fine but the Tex_CompileMulipleTimes()
     function does not i.e. it jumps first to the directory of the latexmain
     file before starting the compiler, which in turn cannot find the
     file to compile if the header file is not in the same dir.
     Inserting something like (in Tex_CompileMulipleTimes())

         if !exists('b:fragmentFile') || b:fragmentFile == 0
             call Tex_CD(Tex_GetMainFileName(':p:h'))
         endif

     seems to fix this.

* In Tex_CompileLatex() the error message if the ft != tex says
   
       echo "calling Tex_RunLaTeX from a non-tex file"
                     ^^^^^^^^^^^^
  shouldn't that be Tex_CompileLatex?

So that's it.

Please forgive me if some of the remarks are already fixed or otherwise
documented, i didn't try to hunt around in the ChangeLog or the CVS logs.
Also my remarks about not decoumented features are all based on searching
in the tutorial and the latex-suite.txt file via simple searching in vim
like so: '/project<RET>'.
So maybe i missed some of the explanations, if that is the case i am
sorry to bother you with this.
     
Thanks a lot for your attention

   --lars