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I just installed the vim latex-suite plugin. Whenever I type empty brackets, parentheses, or braces, I get an extra pair of them, and I am moved to the middle of the new pair and put into insert mode.
i.e. after typing
{}
I get
{}{}
with the cursor between the second pair of empty braces.
How can I disable this?
Checkout your vim setting of backspace via :set backspace?. If it doesn't contain start you should add this :set backspace+=start (help :h 'backspace') to get the expected behavior of vim-latex.
Honestly, I think this should be noted somewhere in the vim-latex documentation or even set automatically by the plugin since it relies on it.
Normally, you should have {}<++>, where <++> is a placeholder where you can jump using Ctrl+J. It seems like the delimiters for placeholders have been replaced by {}. From the documentation of latexsuite, maybe you should verify the value of the variables Imap_PlaceHolderStart and Imap_PlaceHolderEnd to check whether these have respectively been changed to { and }. Maybe you could try adding the lines
let g:Imap_PlaceHolderStart='<+'
let g:Imap_PlaceHolderEnd='+>'
in your .vimrc. If you just want to get rid of the place holders, searching around, the question
What does <++> signify when using Vim LatexSuite?
normally should give you a way to do that. Finally, I personally didn't like the automatic text replacement functionality, and I put the line
let g:Imap_FreezeImap=1
in my .vimrc. This deactivates lots of features, however in your case, the behaviour of {} should go back to normal. This however does not deactivate the automatic placeholder insertion, since pressing Tab in a description environment will introduce a \item[<+label+>] <++> in the document, which may also be corrupted in your case.
