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This should be deleted in favor of Compiling LaTeX from Vim, which has much better methods of compiling.

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created 2003 · complexity basic · author Vincent NAUDOT · version 5.7

Here is a map allowing you to press "\'" in insert mode. It saves the current tex file, then compiles it.

map! \' <Esc>:w<CR>:! latex %<CR>i

You may wonder how to open the associated dvi file. Simply replace % with %<.dvi to give:

map! <F4> <Esc>:! xdvi %<.dvi <CR>i
"Or (if using K environment):
map! <F4> <Esc>:! kdvi %<.dvi <CR>

The same thing applies for any other extension. The following will open the associated ps file with gv.

map! <F5> <Esc>:! gv %<.ps <CR>i

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This is deprecated, the preferred form is %:r

And in fact there's a whole bunch more things you can do than just remove the extension - you can remove the directory/path, keep just the extension, etc etc by using different ':' modifiers.

:help filename-modifers

There is the vim-latex-project: http://vim-latex.sourceforge.net/

If you install that in your ~/.vim you will have a lot of improvments over the map. \ll compiles your .tex-file, \lv shows you the .dvi. `d give you \delta, and `D gives you \Delta. There is so much, just check it out!

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 Here is a map allowing you to press "\'" in insert mode. It saves the current tex file, then compiles it.
- map! \' &lt;Esc&gt;:w&lt;CR&gt;:! latex %&lt;CR&gt;i
+ map! \' <Esc>:w<CR>:! latex %<CR>i
-You may wonder how to open the associated dvi file. Simply replace '''%''' with '''%&lt;.dvi''' to give:
+You may wonder how to open the associated dvi file. Simply replace '''%''' with '''%<.dvi''' to give:
- map! &lt;F4&gt; &lt;Esc&gt;:! xdvi %&lt;.dvi &lt;CR&gt;i
+ map! <F4> <Esc>:! xdvi %<.dvi <CR>i
  "Or (if using K environment):
- map! &lt;F4&gt; &lt;Esc&gt;:! kdvi %&lt;.dvi &lt;CR&gt;
+ map! <F4> <Esc>:! kdvi %<.dvi <CR>
 The same thing applies for any other extension. The following will open the associated ps file with gv.
- map! &lt;F5&gt; &lt;Esc&gt;:! gv %&lt;.ps &lt;CR&gt;i
+ map! <F5> <Esc>:! gv %<.ps <CR>i
 ==Comments==
-This is deprecated, the preferred form is <tt>%:r</tt>
+This is deprecated, the preferred form is <code>%:r</code>
 And in fact there's a whole bunch more things you can do than just remove the extension - you can remove the directory/path, keep just the extension, etc etc by using different ':' modifiers.