Hi Franco,

Thanks for the quick reply.  Quickfix recognizes the errors and is able to 
detect the location of errors, it sounds odd that it cannot deduce the file 
name that is being compiled?

Jushan


> Jushan,
>  
>  On 8/26/07, Jushan Bai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>  
>  > Hi Franco,
>  >
>  > Thanks for your willingness to help. Both the file name  and and 
> line number appear to be correct.
>  > A simple screen shot is attached (MS doc file).
>  >
>  > Here is the orginal program, no empty lines at the beginning. On 
> the 4th line "lpha" is undefined,
>  > the Quickfix recognize the error, but no jump.
>  >
>  > \documentclass[12pt]{article}
>  > \begin{document}
>  > This is my first paragraph.
>  > Consider the equation  $\lpha = \beta$, here ``lpha'' is undefined 
> on purpose.
>  >
>  > This is my second paragraph.
>  > \end{document}
>  
>  As I suspected, the filename is not deduced correctly by latex-suite.
>  In the quickfix window you should see the line
>  
>    ivnote.tex|4 error| Undefined control sequence. \lpha  Consider the
>  equation ...
>  
>  but your line is missing "ivnote.tex" at the beginning.
>  
>  I tried your example on my machine, a linux box with vim7, and I have
>  no problem. But I do see this problem sometimes on other files
>  (especially when I am using certain packages). It seems that the
>  latex-suite procedures to detect the errors (including finding the
>  filenames and line numbers) from the latex output isn't satisfactory.
>  
>  I took a look at the code, but was not able to find a way to quickly
>  fix it. The problem is that the latex compilation messages are not
>  consistent across all packages, so the currently defined procedure
>  doesn't always work. I have problems with the xypic package. If the
>  package is loaded and if there is an error in my file, then vim always
>  jumps to the some file that belongs to the xypic package (some .sty
>  file, I think).
>  
>  I'm sending this reply to the list in case someone has any
>  suggestions. But the list seems to be very quite these days.
>  
>  Take care,
>  Franco
>  
>  --
>  

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