Re: [Vim-latex-devel] Path expansion (was: search for bibtex entry by regexp)

[Srinath A. <sri...@gm...>]

Hi Christian,

On 3/25/06, Christian Ebert <bla...@gm...> wrote:
>
> Yes. Under the condition that I do not use "~" in Tex_BIBINPUTS.
> I have to include the full path to my $HOME -- $HOME is not
> expanded either. Either the docs are misleading or again I
> misunderstood.
>
> latex-suite.txt, line 1126f.:
>
> |Example:  >
> |    let g:Tex_TEXINPUTS =3D '~/texmf/mypackages/**,./**'
>
> As h:file-searching does not say anything about variable
> expansion it might only be a matter of correcting the docs.

Yes, I mistakenly assumed that Vim's file-searching used expansion. This
might be a good time to convince Bram to support it since he's making
a new release.

> As file-searching can be quite time consuming perhaps the example
> could be changed to something like
>
> Example:  >
>     let g:Tex_TEXINPUTS =3D '/full/path/to/home/texmf/mypackages/**2,./**=
'
>
This makes sense as well. I'll change the docs for both cases.

> While I was at it I set Tex_ImageDir for the first time. But it
> doesn't seem to work for me. I have
>
> let g:Tex_ImageDir =3D '/Users/chris/texinputs'
>
> where my images are stored. So I believed that when doing
>
> \includegraphics{
>
> and pressing <F9> the explorer would also show me the contents of
> /Users/chris/texinputs but I only get the current directory. What
> am I doing wrong?

In some release of latex-suite, support for Tex_ImageDir() got taken
out! :( I don't know how it happened. Its an easy fix though... I'll
make the required change in SVN.

> Anyway, thanks for latex-suite. Perhaps you don't get as much
> feedback as you sometimes whish because people are too busy using
> it and it just works ;-)
>
Thanks :) I hope thats the case.

Srinath