[Vim-latex-devel] newbie question

[Alexandre R. <fre...@gm...>]

Hi,
I've just got into the vim-latex world and I'm having some problems.
* The first one is that my .tex files are not detected as latex files (only
.latex files are). How can I make vim understand
that the .tex files are in fact latex files?

* Often I need to type =E3 and my keyboard is configured so that whenever I
type ~a I get =E3. However, vim-latex seems to bind
~a to \cite{}. I've created the file .vim/after/ftplugin/tex.vim with
the following line:
call IMAP('~a', '=E3', 'tex')
but it did not work at all.

By the way, I'm using vim 7.0 on linux (ubuntu edgy) and
vim-latex latexSuite20060325.tar.gz<http://vim-latex.sourceforge.net/downlo=
ad/latexSuite20060325.tar.gz>

Any help would be appreciated.
Alexandre