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I have installed gvim on my Ubuntu 12.04 operating system.How to install the LaTeX plugin for gvim?I have TeXlive installed.
I used the following link to follow to the instructions: http://vim-latex.sourceforge.net/index.php?subject=download&title=Download
I have .vim folder in my home folder but no .vimrc
As gvim is just vim “in gtk-window”, I will use vim for convenience.
When you installed vim via the packagemanager, it should have gotten its own directory under /etc with (at least one) template vimrc.
/etc/vim/vimrc
/etc is usually the place, where configuration-files are stored that apply to the whole system and will be used as fallback, when a user has not defined his own.
Your personalized configuration-file should reside below your homedirectory.
So, usually, it suffices to just have /home/my_home/vimrc.
It is always a good idea to copy the configuration-file from /etc/vim and change that as needed.
If you so far used vim without a personalized vimrc, then it loaded the /etc/vim/vimrc and you might notice a different behaviour when you start with an empty vimrc.
I would recommend to use the hidden directory for vim, in which you can store all vim-related configurations,
i.e. /home/my_home/.vim/vimrc
and plugins, such as the latex-suite.
When decompressing the archive, you might only get the following directory:
~/.vim/vim-latex-1.8.23
But what you need, is to have that directories contents to be directly under ~/.vim.
For example:
~/.vim/vim-latex-1.8.23/latextags
→
~/.vim/latextags
So, the plugin (and its documentation) expects a certain order in the directory-tree, without which, the plugin will not be able to function.
I encountered the same problem at first and finally found this solution. I hope that this can still be of some help.
