[Vim-latex-devel] Fwd: RFC: filetypes for TeX, LaTeX, ConTeXT (others?)

[Aditya M. <ad...@um...>]

The following is a post from  Benji Fisher to vim mailing list. 
Users in this list will be interetested in the discussion.

How about making latex-suite the 'default' ftplugin for latex. So that 
it ships with vim.

link:http://article.gmane.org/gmane.editors.vim/40018
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  Vim Users and Developers:

       Up to vim 6.x, all TeX variants were given filetype tex .  The 
syntax file was aimed at LaTeX, and the ftplugin made some attempt to 
accommodate both plain TeX and LaTeX.  Under development, vim 7.0 
includes syntax and ftplugin files for ConTeXt, with file type 
context. I think it is time to have separate file types for plain TeX 
and LaTeX, and would like input from all interested users.

  1. Are there other TeX variants (a.k.a. formats or flavors) that 
should also be supported?

  2. What file types should we use for plain TeX and LaTeX:
  	(a) tex for plain TeX and latex for LaTeX
  	(b) plaintex for plain TeX and tex for LaTeX
  	(c) other suggestions?

       The argument for 2(a) is that it is more logical.  The argument 
for 2(b) is that it is more backwards compatible.  That is, I think 
there are a lot more users who use LaTeX and would have to make adjustments 
if we changed their file types to latex than there are users of plain 
TeX who would be bothered if they had to change to plaintex.  Correct me 
if  I am wrong:  I think there are not many scripts out there that

  					--Benji Fisher

  P.S.  I maintain $VIMRUNTIME/ftplugin/tex.vim .



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