[Vim-latex-devel] vim vs gvim Menus on Empty .tex File

[Donnie P. <don...@ma...>]

It would be helpful to vim and latex newbies if the vim-latexsuite
documentation could make clear that vim (as opposed to gvim) will not
load the latexsuite plugin when you first create a new empty .tex file.
You have to "prime the pump" as documented here:

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=377453

This problem occurs because vim sees the empty file's filetype as
'plaintex' rather than 'tex'.  You can prove this with the results of
vim's ':set ft' command.  It will come back 'plaintex' rather than
'tex'.  Therefore, another solution is to use vim's ':set ft=tex'
command on the new, empty file to wake up latexsuite. See:

http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-vim-maintainers/2006-August/003267.htm 

-- 
Donnie Pennington