Re: [Vim-latex-devel] couple of questions

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

Hi Andreas,

On 3/31/06, Andreas Wagner <A.W...@st...> wrote:
> first of all thanks for this life-changing suite. I cannot imagine
> working without it anymore. After playing around with it a bit, I

Thanks for the encouragement :)

These are all excellent suggestions. Some of them are pretty trivial to
implement, some will require quite a bit of code rearrangement.

> I'd like to suggest to have Tex_package_detected be defined also when
> Tex_PackagesMenu=3D0 (else I found at least SmartDots to fail).
>
This is the suggestion which will probably take the longest. I am not
100% sure though, since I had very little to do with the packages
portion (it was mostly done by Mikolaj Machowski). In any case, I plan
to take a look at this after a few days.

> Second, the handy ellipsis package takes care of ellipsis dots as
> well, so that it would probably be better if SmartDots replaced the
> dots with \dots instead of \ldots when it is loaded, too.

Sounds good, I'll make the change.

> AFAIU, in the ngerman package file, there should be lines like these:
>    let g:TeX_package_ngerman =3D ''
>    let g:TeX_package_option_ngerman =3D ''
>

Sounds good, I'll make this change...

> Fourth, I would like to overwrite the EFC mapping (associated with
> filecontents env.) with another environment (actually, not an
> environment, but the footcite command from the jurabib package). So
> I have this in my ~/.vim/vimfiles/ftplugin/tex/texrc:
>
>      call IMAP('EFC',"\\footcite[<++>][<++>]{<++>}<++>",'tex')
>
> (I also have these in my texrc and this, i.e. S-F4, seems to work)
>      TexLet g:Tex_Env_footcite=3D"\\footcite[<++>][<++>]{<++>}<++>"
>      TexLet g:Tex_HotKeyMappings=3D'citation,quotation,quote,footcite'
>
> What can I do to have EFC remain mapped to the footcite env?
> (With EFN and ECT which I am using for footnote and cite env resp.
> command, it is working fine, too. Or are these overwritten after all,
> too?)

As matters stand right now, any IMAPs defined by the user are
over-written by latex-suite. This should probably be considered a bug.
I will fix this if it turns out it won't cause any problems.

In the meanwhile, a workaround is to define the IMAPs in
~/.vim/after/ftplugin/tex.vim

This file will get sourced _after_ latex-suite does its thing and it
will be able to over-write the IMAP created by latex-suite.

> Fifth and finally, I am trying to get together package support files
> for the packages I am using -- Out of the examples on the web and in
> the exmpl file, I am not sure which prefix should be prepended to
> brace commands that accept one option, like \fixme[margin]{nonsense}
> (I tried brd and nob, but both are giving two pairs of curly
> braces...)

It looks like there is no standard way of doing this! This should be
easy to fix. I'll make the change soon.

> I have attached another package support file, too, in case you're
> interested. (But this is the one I am still planning to improve.) I am
> not sure if the attachments will be stripped somewhere along the way,
> tho.
>

I did get the attachments fine. Thanks! I'll include these in the next
release.

Thanks!
Srinath