Re: [Vim-latex-devel] Viewer doesnt start in Ubuntu Dapper Drake

[Sebastian M. <seb...@un...>]

Am Donnerstag, den 23.03.2006, 11:04 -0800 schrieb Srinath Avadhanula:
> 2. If none of this gives you any new information, you can try as a last
>    resort looking at the Tex_ViewLaTeX() function in
>    ~/.vim/ftplugin/latex-suite/compiler.vim. This is the function
>    invoked when you type \lv.

Bad news: wrong CWD was wrong ..

I looked into the function and put some new debug statements there to be
sure what the cwd is. There was no problem at all.

Good news: 

Problem is fixed. :-) Here a small log of my analysis:

When i opened the file in nautilus (the gnome file explorer) with "GVim
Text Editor", I had _two_ buffers in vim. One with "~/path/file.tex" and
one with "file:///home/me/path/file.tex". Dont know why. 

But starting a file from nautilus with my homebrewn command "gvim", i
had only one buffer, and surprisingly "\lv" works fine.

To reproduce the error, I launched gvim from the shell the same way it
is launched from nautilus:

# gvim -f file:///home/me/path/file.tex

And look, i had two buffers and \lv didnt work. Interestingly, 

# gvim  file:///... (without '-f')

opens two buffers but \lv works. 

Looking into the man-page "-f" means "foreground, do not fork and detach
from the shell vim was started in". Whatever that means.

Testing

# gvim -f path/file.tex

results in one buffer, but \lv doesnt work. So forget the two buffers
and file:// URL and focus on "-f"

So i guess the problem is analyzed and solved, but im not sure whose it
is :-)

regards, Sebastian.