Thursday, January 5, 2012

Re: Getting started with Vim-Latex

Hi,

Instead of pathogen you can also try VimAddonManager:
http://www.vim.orgścriptsścript.php?script_id=2905
(it operates well with git, and other version control systems, so that you can
use the git version of LatexSuite, and be really up to date).

Best,
Marcin

On 10:12 Thu 05 Jan , Daryl wrote:
> Thanks to both of you for the response. It all seems to be working now,
> and I think the issue was that the file unzip process I used did not get
> everything put in the right places. I finished it out by hand and now I
> get a bunch of Latex-ish menu items in response to the ":e newfile.tex"
> command. I can even load a template and the cursor goes where it should.
> To respond directly to your several questions:
>
> 1. Gary, the addition to my .vimrc file was already there, as part of the
> instructions I was following in the URL I cited. But without all the
> support files that were missing, it didn't do much good.
>
> 2. Matthias, I'd never heard of Tim Pope or pathogen; I've checked a
> couple of references to it and it looks like something I need. When I have
> a moment to take it for a test drive I will.
>
> 3. As to your question about my familiarity with Vim: I've been using it
> since 5.2 as my primary editor, but the 80/20 rule has dominated my usage
> of it. My freshman programming students think I'm a wizard. I would call
> myself "competent" in any context other than this mailing list. I wander
> around among Mac OS X, Windows, and Linux for my programming work, and
> having a single editor for all three environments is pretty important to
> me. As with Vim itself, I'm interested in the Latex capabilities so I
> don't have to learn three different Latex IDEs for doing document
> preparation in whatever OS I find myself in at the moment.
>
> Thanks to both of you for your responses. I think I'm operational now.
> It'll be interesting to see this do real work.
>
>
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