vim-latex-devel

[Vim-latex-devel] latexsuite ignores settings of Tex_IgnoreWarnings

[Ingo F. <ma...@in...>]

Dear latex-suite developers and users,

I have been using latex-suite for a relatively long time now and it
generally served me very well. With one exception, though: I have never
really managed to get the compilation to work. That is, I always had to
switch back to the terminal and run

pdflatex nameofytexfile && fg

This works but is not convenient. I finally managed to get rid of the
'Undefined variable: s:target' type of warnings by adding a line to
explicitely reset the target format when opening a tex file:

autocmd FileType tex call Tex_SetTeXCompilerTarget('Compile','pdf')

This seems to do the job, although it doesn't feel like it is supposed
to work like this.

Another an much more annoying point is that I always get stuck in a
quickfix buffer. This is exactly where I would like to go for errors.
But not for every "Overfull \hbox"-Warning. As far as I understand from
the documentation, the variables Tex_IgnoreLevel and Tex_IgnoredWarnings
should cover this issue. Neither leaving them at their default values,
nor setting them explicitely results in any change in behavior. Yet,
explicitely echoing the values of the respective variables shows that
they have values that (in my understanding) should suppress "Overfull
\hbox"-Warnings:

:echo Tex_IgnoreLevel
7

:echo Tex_IgnoredWarnings
Underfull
Overfull
specifier changed to
You have requested
Missing number, treated as zero.
There were undefined references
Citation %.%# undefined

Any suggestions what else I could try to see only those warnings I want
to see?

Thank you very much in advance,

Ingo

Re: [Vim-latex-devel] latexsuite ignores settings of Tex_IgnoreWarnings

[Alessandro P. <ale...@la...>]

> Any suggestions what else I could try to see only those warnings I want
> to see?

Dear Ingo,
as I recently wrote on this mailing list [1] vim's quickfix doesn't
really like latex's multi-linear error messages.
Therefore, you could start trying to use a latex wrapper like 'rubber'
[2], which is able to sanitize latex's error and warning messages.
This should at least prevent vim from switching to the wrong file on
some compilation errors.

For example, I have the following lines in an ftplugin,
~/.vim/ftplugin/tex.vim , which you could put in your .vimrc, if you
prefer:

let g:Tex_DefaultTargetFormat = "pdf"
let g:Tex_CompileRule_pdf = "rubber -s --pdf $*"

Hope this helps,
Alessandro

[1] http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=30365813
[2] https://launchpad.net/rubber/

Re: [Vim-latex-devel] latexsuite ignores settings of Tex_IgnoreWarnings

[Ted P. <te...@te...>]

Alessandro/Ingo --

> Dear Ingo,
> as I recently wrote on this mailing list [1] vim's quickfix doesn't
> really like latex's multi-linear error messages.

	This issue has been discussed ad nauseum on this mailing list in the
past, and several solutions have been suggested. rubber is one of them,
but there are other ways to mitigate these problems.

	Here is an archive of solutions from 2008:

http://phaseportrait.blogspot.com/2008/03/fixing-vim-latex-compiler-error.html

It includes

* rubber

* adjusting your latex compile rule to use "-file-line-error-style"
(support for this EFM has already been added to Vim-LaTeX, and so that
step can be skipped)

* a script like "vimlatex" that wraps latex and attempts to sanitize the
multi-line error messages into a form that Vim is happy with.

You can actually combine the second and third bullet.

	A downside of -file-line-error-style (which is just -file-line-error in
newest versions of latex) is that it doesn't help with warnings. Rubber
also doesn't help with all warnings. So if you really care about
catching warnings, your mileage may vary.

	--Ted

P.S.

	I'm mulling over making "-file-line-error-style" the default compile
rule in Vim-LaTeX now that most distributions should support it.

-- 
Ted Pavlic <te...@te...>

Re: [Vim-latex-devel] latexsuite ignores settings of Tex_IgnoreWarnings

[Alessandro P. <ale...@la...>]

>         This issue has been discussed ad nauseum on this mailing list in the
> past, and several solutions have been suggested. rubber is one of them,
> but there are other ways to mitigate these problems.
>
>         Here is an archive of solutions from 2008:
>
> http://phaseportrait.blogspot.com/2008/03/fixing-vim-latex-compiler-error.html
>
> It includes
>
> * rubber
>
> * adjusting your latex compile rule to use "-file-line-error-style"
> (support for this EFM has already been added to Vim-LaTeX, and so that
> step can be skipped)
>
> * a script like "vimlatex" that wraps latex and attempts to sanitize the
> multi-line error messages into a form that Vim is happy with.
>
> You can actually combine the second and third bullet.
>
>         A downside of -file-line-error-style (which is just -file-line-error in
> newest versions of latex) is that it doesn't help with warnings. Rubber
> also doesn't help with all warnings. So if you really care about
> catching warnings, your mileage may vary.

It probably doesn't fit in the manual, but could we at least add this
piece of information to the FAQ? This seems to be a fairly common
issue.

Alessandro

Re: [Vim-latex-devel] latexsuite ignores settings of Tex_IgnoreWarnings

[Ingo F. <ma...@in...>]

Thanks Ted and Alessandro,

Your comments have been very helpful. I had a look at rubber and it
seems to be a very interesting tool. The debian package didn't run out
of the box, though and I am under a bit of time pressure. So vimlatex is
doing the job now. It works great. Thanks for the hint, Ted.

Best,

Ingo

On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 12:02:53PM +0100, Alessandro Pezzoni wrote:
> >         This issue has been discussed ad nauseum on this mailing list in the
> > past, and several solutions have been suggested. rubber is one of them,
> > but there are other ways to mitigate these problems.
> >
> >         Here is an archive of solutions from 2008:
> >
> > http://phaseportrait.blogspot.com/2008/03/fixing-vim-latex-compiler-error.html
> >
> > It includes
> >
> > * rubber
> >
> > * adjusting your latex compile rule to use "-file-line-error-style"
> > (support for this EFM has already been added to Vim-LaTeX, and so that
> > step can be skipped)
> >
> > * a script like "vimlatex" that wraps latex and attempts to sanitize the
> > multi-line error messages into a form that Vim is happy with.
> >
> > You can actually combine the second and third bullet.
> >
> >         A downside of -file-line-error-style (which is just -file-line-error in
> > newest versions of latex) is that it doesn't help with warnings. Rubber
> > also doesn't help with all warnings. So if you really care about
> > catching warnings, your mileage may vary.
> 
> It probably doesn't fit in the manual, but could we at least add this
> piece of information to the FAQ? This seems to be a fairly common
> issue.
> 
> Alessandro
> 

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