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

[Aditya M. <ad...@um...>]

On Mon, 4 Jun 2007, Donnie Pennington wrote:

> 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'.

This was changed recently (around Vim 7). See

See :he ft-tex-plugin

If you only use latex, add the following to your .vimrc

  let g:tex_flavor = "latex"

Probably needs to be added to latex-suite's FAQ.

Aditya