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. -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php
