[Vim-latex-devel] Error reporting problem with dependency chain

[Jason K. H. <jho...@ma...>]

I observed the following problem with latex suite. When compiling with a
dependency chain, say (dvi, ps) for example, if an error occurs in the
dvi compile, it is not correctly reported. What happens is that the loop
in Run_Latex continues to call Tex_CompileLatex or
Tex_CompileMultipleTimes even after a previous error has occurred. By
the time Tex_SetupErrorWindow is called, the previous :cwindow errors
have been replaced (erased) by the latest :make command. One possible
fix to this problem is attached. Tex_SetupErrorWindow was modified to
return a true value if an error is detected in :cwindow.
Tex_SetupErrorWindow is also called after every iteration of the
dependency chain loop. If an error is detected, then a flag is set which
prevents future calls to the Compile functions, and thus preserves the
:cwindow information. Since bailing out of the dependency chain
while-loop prematurely will leave s:target having the incorrect value,
the loop iteration continues through the dependency list, but with no
calls to the Compile functions. Perhaps there is a more elegant way of
doing all this, by knowledge of vim programming is limited. Hope it helps.
 

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