On Sun, 25 Feb 2007, Nikolai Weibull wrote:
> On 2/25/07, Idris Samawi Hamid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Info for the gang:
>>
>> http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=223940&threshold=1&commentsort=0&mode=thread&pid=18135068#18135322
>>
>> (last paragraph)
>>
>> This does not affect me or many of us but it's good to know the vibes out
>> there.
>
> All the vim latex suite is really doing is packaging a bunch of (not
> very good) plugins. It wouldn't require much work to do something
> similar for context. But I'm not the guy for that, sorry.
I have written some plugins for context that I use. Basically, a
compiler plugin, a syntax highlight (I could not get spell checking to
work with Nikolai's syntax hightlight file, and I want slightly
differnt syntax highlighting), an indent file, copied part of
vim-latex that translates `a to \alpha (in utf), a text reformatter
that recognizes context delimiters (vim's inbuild paragraph makers
only understand troff markup), mappings to compile, check, and view
pdf files from F-key mappings, and a menu to for couple of less used
options (context update, regenerate formats, etc.). I also have a
regex mess that aligns key=value kind of arguments.
I never completely liked latex-suite's environment expanders, i.e.,
EEQ expands to \begin{equation} .. \end{equation}. Recently, I
discovered snippetEmu, that allows textmate like snippets in vim, and
I have been experimenting using it for few commonly using snippets.
There are a few quirks, but so far I like it.
Most of this is pretty simple. There is no support for multi-file
compilations (like latex-suite), no replace environment, the
errorformat handler does not always work, the indent file is not fail
proof (gg=G will not give good results). And nothing is customizable.
Things are how I like them. I haven't been able to figure out how to
port texshow to vim, and how to get omni-completion to work. There is
no tags support either. If others are interested, I could release
it as a poor man's context-suite for vim, until someone does the whole
thing in a proper manner.
However, I am not convinced on how useful such a package will be. If
you keep things uncustomizable, not many people will like it. If you
keep them customizable, it usually becomes a mess. Cream is the only
plugin for vim that I know which is customizable and easy to use.
Others, latex-suite, taglist, project manager, are just too
complicated to use.
Aditya
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