From: Benji Fisher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Plain TeX support ?
Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2006 15:31:33 -0400
> On Mon, Sep 25, 2006 at 08:07:22PM +0200, Meino Christian Cramer wrote:
> > > [snip]
> > > > After I wrote my first TeX-text without Emacs/AucTeX spontaneous I
> > > > would say the following things are missing:
> > > >
> > > > A Keystrokes to insert {\bf X }, {\it X \/} and such where X marks the
> > > > cursor position after doing the keystroke.
> > > >
> > > > B Interface to run TeX and a viewer (configurable) on the file one is
> > > > editing which ensures, that the file on the HD is uptodate.
> > > >
> > > > C Defintions to automatically map "<word>" to ``<word>'' and to remap
> > > > - in my case - german umlauts to the TeX-commandsequences. This
> > > > should be done for any non-ASCII-character. Most of the bugs I had
> > > > to remove while trying to tex my file were of such kind.
> > > >
> > > > I have not proofen that this is not already implemented, I only read
> > > > the few lines of the help text for ft-tex-plugin. And didn't fiddle
> > > > with quickfix and such. May be quickfix can be misused for texing ?
> > > > Dont know.
>
> I am sorry to have left this alone for so long. I have been busy.
> I spent too much time, shortly after the last note on this thread,
> trying to get the 'errorformat' right for plain TeX, then I did not have
> time to let you know about it.
>
> I just posted a preliminary version of plaintex support at
> http://vim.sourceforge.net/scripts/script.php?script_id=1685
> Please try it out. If I get any feedback (from you or others) then I am
> more likely to improve it.
>
> A. I chose <C-B> for \bf and <C-T> for \it . (Why not <C-I>? Because
> vim sees that as a <Tab>, and I do not want to remap that.) In Insert
> mode, you get {\bf }<++> or {\it \/}<++>, with the cursor inside the
> braces, and <C-J> will jump to the <++> marker. In Visual mode, you get
> the Visual selection wrapped in "{\bf " and "}" or "{\it " and "\/}".
> In Normal mode, the word under the cursor is wrapped.
>
> If you have similar requests, they are easy to add.
>
> B. Next version. This is not too hard to do. What viewer do you use?
> xdvi maybe?
>
> C. I map " (in Insert mode) to produce either `` or '' (or " if it is
> after a \ or in Math mode). Do you also want something, maybe <C-Q>, to
> act like <C-B>, so that it will work in Normal, Visual, and Insert
> modes?
>
> I have not tried it, but there is already a script that translates
> various non-ASCII characters into TeX commands. I think it does the
> translation when reading and writing the file. Unfortunately,
> www.vim.org is not responding right now, so I cannot give you a pointer.
>
> [snip]
> > PS: By the way: Are you using Ruby, Benji? I know "The principle of
> > least surprise" from programming Ruby...
>
> No, I do not use Ruby. I think the principle is older than that
> language.
>
> HTH --Benji Fisher
>
Hi Benji,
thank you very much for implementing this! I will test it... :O)
Keep hacking!
mcc
