Hi, On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 03:00:18PM -0400, James Vega wrote: > On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 1:59 PM, Kay Smarczewski > <kay.smarczew...@mailbox.tu-dresden.de> wrote: > > I love vim-latexsuite. But I have noticed that this package is marked > > as orphaned. I am no expert in Debian, Vim and Latex. But I use these > > Software every day and would do my very best to bring the Latex-Suite > > forward. > > martin krafft (CCed) had expressed interest in helping with the package > as well[0]. Although, it looks like help is needed upstream as well and > that's a larger problem, IMO.
Definitely, yes. Upstream is dead and vim-latexsuite nearly unusable. :(
> Lately, I've been suggesting to people interested in using
> vim-latexsuite that they instead use a snippets plugin (like
> snipMate[1]) to setup the snippets they actually need. Vim's builtin
> compiler/quickfix features (":compiler tex" ":make") can be used to
> handle checking for problems in the latex files.
This is actually quite a good idea. I installed snipMate myself and
added a file ~/.vim/ftplugin/tex.vim containing
,----[ ~/.vim/ftplugin/tex.vim ]
| map <silent> <Leader>ll :!pdflatex "%"<CR>
| map <silent> <Leader>lb :!bibtex "`basename % .tex`"<CR>
| map <silent> <Leader>lv :!evince "`basename % .tex`.pdf" &<CR>
`----
which replicates at least some parts of the former behaviour:
\ll compiles to a pdf
\lb runs bibtex
\lv opens evince with the pdf
> I don't personally write (La)Tex so I'm not sure how effective this is
> compared to latexsuite, but I do know that in its current state
> latexsuite is fairly buggy and is essentially dead upstream.
It's not perfect because you have to watch for LaTeX errors youself but
it's better than a buggy software. Thanks for the suggestion, James!
Hauke
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