Dear friends of TUG,<br><br>I am trying to install and use VIM-Latex on a Win XP laptop per these instructions:<br><br>http://vim-latex.sourceforge.net/index.php?subject=download&title=Download<br><br>Step 1 of 4 was completed very well and the files were extracted correctly. The second step is what's causing me grief <img src="http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/mesg/tsmileys2/02.gif"> I can't find a file named .vimrc anywhere but I do find a file called _vimrc which has:<br><br>set nocompatible<br>source $VIMRUNTIME/vimrc_example.vim<br>source $VIMRUNTIME/mswin.vim<br>behave mswin<br><br>set diffexpr=MyDiff()<br>function MyDiff()<br> let opt = '-a --binary '<br> if &diffopt =~ 'icase' | let opt = opt . '-i ' | endif<br> if &diffopt =~ 'iwhite' | let opt = opt . '-b ' | endif<br> let arg1 = v:fname_in<br> if arg1 =~ ' ' | let arg1 = '"' . arg1 . '"' | endif<br> let arg2 = v:fname_new<br> if arg2 =~ ' ' |
let arg2 = '"' . arg2 . '"' | endif<br> let arg3 = v:fname_out<br> if arg3 =~ ' ' | let arg3 = '"' . arg3 . '"' | endif<br> let eq = ''<br> if $VIMRUNTIME =~ ' '<br> if &sh =~ '\<cmd'<br> let cmd = '""' . $VIMRUNTIME . '\diff"'<br> let eq = '"'<br> else<br> let cmd = substitute($VIMRUNTIME, ' ', '" ', '') . '\diff"'<br> endif<br> else<br> let cmd = $VIMRUNTIME . '\diff'<br> endif<br> silent execute '!' . cmd . ' ' . opt . arg1 . ' ' . arg2 . ' > ' . arg3 . eq<br>endfunction<br><br>Is that the file that you are referring to or should I write a .vimrc file with the following?<br><br><pre>filetype plugin on<br>set shellslash<br>set grepprg=grep\ -nH\ $*<br>filetype indent on<br><br>Please help me <img
src="http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/mesg/tsmileys2/02.gif"><br><br>Regards,<br><br><br>Diego Acosta<br><br><br>P.S. I have looked at forums, and many other sources...</pre><p> 
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