

There do not appear to be any error messages, but there is no *.pdf file in the directory from which the source file was read. When I do that the vim command line displays :silent! call Tex_RunLaTeX() I can't do \ll for some reason, but I can choose compile from the Tex-Suite menu.

So, I created two symbolic links to make those two directories children of ~/.vim, and surprise, surprise, the Tex special menus appeared in the MacVim menu bar.

I did this manually from the command line, and perhaps that created an incomplete installation, macOS being particularly perverse about paths. They are children of the directory ~/.vim/vim-latex-1.10.0, which was created when I did gunzip and tar -xvf on the downloaded tarball. I found a reference that directories doc and ftplugin must be children of ~/.vim. netrwhistĭrwxr-xr-x 15 carly staff 510 May 20 14:59 vim-latex-1.10.0Ĭlearly, I have omitted something or done something wrong. In vim :scriptnames yields: 1: /Applications/MacVim.app/Contents/Resources/vim/vimrcģ: /Applications/MacVim.app/Contents/Resources/vim/runtime/syntax/syntax.vimĤ: /Applications/MacVim.app/Contents/Resources/vim/runtime/syntax/synload.vimĥ: /Applications/MacVim.app/Contents/Resources/vim/runtime/syntax/syncolor.vimĦ: /Applications/MacVim.app/Contents/Resources/vim/runtime/filetype.vimħ: /Applications/MacVim.app/Contents/Resources/vim/runtime/menu.vimĨ: /Applications/MacVim.app/Contents/Resources/vim/runtime/autoload/paste.vimĩ: /Applications/MacVim.app/Contents/Resources/vim/runtime/scripts.vimġ0: /Applications/MacVim.app/Contents/Resources/vim/runtime/colors/blue.vimġ1: /Applications/MacVim.app/Contents/Resources/vim/runtime/ftplugin.vimġ2: /Applications/MacVim.app/Contents/Resources/vim/runtime/indent.vimġ3: /Applications/MacVim.app/Contents/Resources/vim/runtime/plugin/getscriptPlugin.vimġ4: /Applications/MacVim.app/Contents/Resources/vim/runtime/plugin/gzip.vimġ5: /Applications/MacVim.app/Contents/Resources/vim/runtime/plugin/logiPat.vimġ6: /Applications/MacVim.app/Contents/Resources/vim/runtime/plugin/manpager.vimġ7: /Applications/MacVim.app/Contents/Resources/vim/runtime/plugin/matchparen.vimġ8: /Applications/MacVim.app/Contents/Resources/vim/runtime/plugin/netrwPlugin.vimġ9: /Applications/MacVim.app/Contents/Resources/vim/runtime/plugin/rrhelper.vimĢ0: /Applications/MacVim.app/Contents/Resources/vim/runtime/plugin/spellfile.vimĢ1: /Applications/MacVim.app/Contents/Resources/vim/runtime/plugin/tarPlugin.vimĢ2: /Applications/MacVim.app/Contents/Resources/vim/runtime/plugin/tohtml.vimĢ3: /Applications/MacVim.app/Contents/Resources/vim/runtime/plugin/vimballPlugin.vimĢ4: /Applications/MacVim.app/Contents/Resources/vim/runtime/plugin/zipPlugin.vimĢ5: /Applications/MacVim.app/Contents/Resources/vim/gvimrcĬontent of ~/.vim -rw-r-r- 1 carly staff 150. Here are some relevant files: which pdflatex However, I have not been able to get vim to build *.pdf, \ll does nothing nor is vim even aware that Latex_Suite is installed, i.e., none of the LaTeX commands appear in the MacVim menu system.

I also compiled successfully *.tex with pdflatex from the command line. I then installed and tested TexShop.app and texmaker.app.
#Macvim vimrc install
Before attempting the vim/LaTeX install I downloaded and installed MacTex-2018, the version required for macOS 10.13.6. I am trying to install Latex_Suite in MacVim.
