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Good Afternoon All,

I am trying to install Vim and Latex suite to work on my latex project.

I need help with installing this properly on Mac OS X Lion. I have already installed MacVim.

To setup Vim-Latex I am using instructions provided here. According to instructions

  1. I have downlaoded vim-latex-1.8.23-20120125.768-git8b62284.tar and extracted to ~/.vim directory.
  2. I have created file ~/.vimrc with content from recommended settings
  3. I have created file ~/.vim/ftplugin/tex.vim with content from recommended settings.

Install the help files To install the included latex-suite.txt and latexhelp.txt files as vim help files, start vim and do the following: helptags ~/.vim/doc

How do I do this step, because from terminal I get following error

Khurrams-MacBook:.vim kmajeed$ helptags ~/.vim/doc/  
-bash: helptags: command not found
Khurrams-MacBook:.vim kmajeed$

How can I make sure LATEX is setup and working fine for me?

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helptags is not a shell command, it is a vim command. You need to call it from inside vim. Start vim and type 

:helptags ~/.vim/doc/

(notice the colon).

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  • I executed the command from vim, cursor goes to the top of editor window. But I din't see any confirmation. Is it normal? How can I make sure LATEX is setup and working fine for me?
    – Khurram Majeed
    Jun 4, 2012 at 17:58
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    As far as I can tell, there is no confirmation. Try :help latex-suite to see if the help tags were generated correctly. Other than that, to see if your setup is working, the best way is to open a tex file. You should automatically have TeX syntax highlighting, and the gvim menus should contain the latex-suite commands. You should have TeX-Suite, TeX-Environments and few other menus like that. Using the LaTeX suite compile command (I believe the default is \ll) should compile your file, the view cammand (\lv) should launch a dvi or pdf viewer with your document in it.
    – Jan Hlavacek
    Jun 4, 2012 at 18:58

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