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On Sun, 25 Feb 2007, Nikolai Weibull wrote:
On 2/25/07, Idris Samawi Hamid
wrote: Info for the gang:
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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