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I have been trying to get moderncv working for a while now. I was missing some packages so I upgraded from texlive 2009basic to texlive 2010.

Everything went as expected however I am getting a little bit of strange behavior. I am using:

In the past to compile I used the keyboard shortcut: \ll. This still works sometimes. Here are reproduction steps:

  1. From the terminal go: gvim ass1v2.tex this opens macvim
  2. Make a change to the document
  3. Press \ll to compile the document
  4. Open the document: open ass1v2.pdf. The document is opened in preview and the change made in step 2 is NOT visible.
  5. Quit preview.
  6. Save and Quit MacVim.
  7. Open MacVim.
  8. Press \ll to compile the document
  9. Open the document: open ass1v2.pdf. The document is opened in preview and the change made in step 2 is visible.

The only way to get the \ll shortcut working again is to quit macvim and relaunch it. This will allow one fresh compile before a restart is required again.

Couple questions:

  • How can I tell what \ll is mapped to? Maybe then I can debug the command itself
  • It seems very strange that it will compile once but requires a restart of MacVim before it will work again. Any ideas why this would be?

To Test I opened a file that I had been working on with Tex 2009basic and checked to make sure that this problem was being caused my my new installation.

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Do you get the same behavior if you just use vim? – TH. Dec 21 '10 at 16:53
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please accept your answer. – Caramdir Jan 20 '11 at 17:49
Does this question count as 'too localised'? – Joseph Wright♦ Feb 19 '11 at 19:14
@Joseph: I'd say (and vote) so. – TH. Mar 21 '11 at 23:45

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Dahm. I am dumb. I was flustered and forgetting to save my docuemnt before compiling. That will teach me. Steps to solve:

  1. Save .tex file
  2. Compile .tex file
  3. Open .pdf file
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Add set autowrite in your .vimrc (not sure where it is with Macvim) and you'll never have this problem again. – mpg Dec 21 '10 at 17:03
@mpg, thanks very helpful! – sixtyfootersdude Dec 22 '10 at 4:12
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If this answer solved your problem, you should accept it. – Hendrik Vogt Dec 22 '10 at 16:01
If this answer solved your problem, you should accept it. :-) – Hendrik Vogt Mar 21 '11 at 21:09

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