vim-latex-devel

[Vim-latex-devel] how to configure the View rule?

[Chen L. <che...@ps...>]

I am new to vim-latex. When I open .tex file using Vim. It says that

No View rule defined for target pdf
Please specify a rule in $VIMRUNTIME/ftplugin/tex/texrc
    :help Tex_ViewRule_format

What should I do? by the way, I am using Mac OS 10.4.

Thanks,

Long

Re: [Vim-latex-devel] how to configure the View rule?

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

Hi Long,

On 4/29/06, Chen Long <che...@ps...> wrote:
> I am new to vim-latex. When I open .tex file using Vim. It says that
>
> No View rule defined for target pdf
> Please specify a rule in $VIMRUNTIME/ftplugin/tex/texrc
>     :help Tex_ViewRule_format
>
> What should I do? by the way, I am using Mac OS 10.4.

Turns out this is a bug in latex-suite specific to the Mac. I fixed this
(hopefully) in SVN, but I cannot be sure since I do not have access to
a Mac. In the meanwhile, a simple way to get around this is to put
something like:

let Tex_ViewRule_pdf =3D '/path/to/acrobat/reader $*.pdf'

in your ~/vimfiles/ftplugin/tex.vim or .vimrc (I do not know how these
files are named, but you hopefully get the idea).

BTW, even with this warning, viewing should still have worked.

Thanks,
Srinath

Re: [Vim-latex-devel] how to configure the View rule?

[Yuan Qi <gma...@sp...>]

> Turns out this is a bug in latex-suite specific to the Mac. I fixed this
> (hopefully) in SVN, but I cannot be sure since I do not have access to
> a Mac. In the meanwhile, a simple way to get around this is to put
> something like:
> 
> let Tex_ViewRule_pdf = '/path/to/acrobat/reader $*.pdf'
> 
> in your ~/vimfiles/ftplugin/tex.vim or .vimrc (I do not know how these
> files are named, but you hopefully get the idea).
> 
> BTW, even with this warning, viewing should still have worked.

I have a related problem with the View function on OS X 10.4.7

With the default value of Tex_ViewRule_format (empty string),
\lv won't work at all! Changing it to 'open' doesn't help either. 
I have to change the string to 'open -a Preview' or "open $.pdf" 
to make it work.

Even then, \lv will only work every other time (that is I have to
type \lv twice to get it to work).

Re: [Vim-latex-devel] how to configure the View rule?

[Christian E. <bla...@gm...>]

* Yuan Qi on Wednesday, September 20, 2006 at 23:15:48 +0000:
>> Turns out this is a bug in latex-suite specific to the Mac. I fixed this
>> (hopefully) in SVN, but I cannot be sure since I do not have access to
>> a Mac. In the meanwhile, a simple way to get around this is to put
>> something like:
>> 
>> let Tex_ViewRule_pdf = '/path/to/acrobat/reader $*.pdf'
>> 
>> in your ~/vimfiles/ftplugin/tex.vim or .vimrc (I do not know how these
>> files are named, but you hopefully get the idea).
>> 
>> BTW, even with this warning, viewing should still have worked.
> 
> I have a related problem with the View function on OS X 10.4.7
> 
> With the default value of Tex_ViewRule_format (empty string),
> \lv won't work at all! Changing it to 'open' doesn't help either. 
> I have to change the string to 'open -a Preview' or "open $.pdf" 
                                                       ^^^^^^^^^^
I think this should be 'open $*.pdf' or 'open $1.pdf'.

> to make it work.
> 
> Even then, \lv will only work every other time (that is I have to
> type \lv twice to get it to work).

I can't reproduce this on MacOS 10.3.9. Just 'open' works, even
though I use the little "launch" utility that you might get via
fink most of the time.

Perhaps it helps if you do "Finder->File->Show Info" on a .pdf,
and then specify Preview under "Open with" and "Use this
application to open all documents like this" explicitly?

c
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Re: [Vim-latex-devel] how to configure the View rule?

[Yuan Qi <gma...@sp...>]

Christian Ebert <blacktrash <at> gmx.net> writes:

> 
> * Yuan Qi on Wednesday, September 20, 2006 at 23:15:48 +0000:
> >> Turns out this is a bug in latex-suite specific to the Mac. I fixed this
> >> (hopefully) in SVN, but I cannot be sure since I do not have access to
> >> a Mac. In the meanwhile, a simple way to get around this is to put
> >> something like:
> >> 
> >> let Tex_ViewRule_pdf = '/path/to/acrobat/reader $*.pdf'
> >> 
> >> in your ~/vimfiles/ftplugin/tex.vim or .vimrc (I do not know how these
> >> files are named, but you hopefully get the idea).
> >> 
> >> BTW, even with this warning, viewing should still have worked.
> > 
> > I have a related problem with the View function on OS X 10.4.7
> > 
> > With the default value of Tex_ViewRule_format (empty string),
> > \lv won't work at all! Changing it to 'open' doesn't help either. 
> > I have to change the string to 'open -a Preview' or "open $.pdf" 
>                                                        ^^^^^^^^^^
> I think this should be 'open $*.pdf' or 'open $1.pdf'.

I meant 'open $*.pdf'. However, this option stopped working after I
did rebuilt the LaunchServices database (I am guessing this is what
cause it to stop working):

/System/Library/Frameworks/ApplicationServices.framework/\
Frameworks/LaunchServices.framework/Support/lsregister \
-kill -r -domain local -domain system -domain user

> 
> > to make it work.
> > 
> > Even then, \lv will only work every other time (that is I have to
> > type \lv twice to get it to work).

This bug is always present regardless of what I tried.

> 
> I can't reproduce this on MacOS 10.3.9. Just 'open' works, even
> though I use the little "launch" utility that you might get via
> fink most of the time.

There are large differences between Tiger and Panther when it comes
to LaunchServices.

> 
> Perhaps it helps if you do "Finder->File->Show Info" on a .pdf,
> and then specify Preview under "Open with" and "Use this
> application to open all documents like this" explicitly?

I tried changing 'Open with' to some other application and then back, 
but that doesn't work.

> 
> c

Re: [Vim-latex-devel] how to configure the View rule?

[Yuan Qi <gma...@sp...>]

I added this to ~/.vimrc and both problems are
gone:

let g:Tex_ViewRuleComplete_pdf = 'open $*.pdf'

The problem seems to lie in the compiler.vim file.
In particular, the following lines:

		if strlen(s:viewer)
			let s:viewer = '-a '.s:viewer
		endif
		let execString = 'open '.s:viewer.' $*.'.s:target

Should be changed to:

		let execString = 'open $*.'.s:target