vim-latex-devel

[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

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

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

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

Ahh . . . that did the trick.  Thanks.
-- 
Donnie Pennington

---On Mon, Jun 04, 2007 at 10:54:42PM -0400, Aditya Mahajan wrote---
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