Alternatives to vimrc for Vim-LaTeX while Sourceforge is down

Question

Sourceforge has been down for the last few days. It seems the only way to find what to add to your vimrc to get Vim-LaTeX to work is to download the 'recommended settings' from Sourceforge. This information is not even in the manual.

Could someone tell me where else I could find what to put in my vimrc to setup Vim-LaTeX?

It would be great if you put a copy here for future reference.

Note: I already have Vim-LaTeX downloaded from a Linux repository, so I just need the vimrc file.

Answer 1

Google is your friend. Specifically, Google's cache:

Make sure that you create a few necessary settings in your ~/.vimrc.

" REQUIRED. This makes vim invoke Latex-Suite when you open a tex file.
filetype plugin on

" IMPORTANT: win32 users will need to have 'shellslash' set so that latex
" can be called correctly.
set shellslash

" IMPORTANT: grep will sometimes skip displaying the file name if you
" search in a singe file. This will confuse Latex-Suite. Set your grep
" program to always generate a file-name.
set grepprg=grep\ -nH\ $*

" OPTIONAL: This enables automatic indentation as you type.
filetype indent on

" OPTIONAL: Starting with Vim 7, the filetype of empty .tex files defaults to
" 'plaintex' instead of 'tex', which results in vim-latex not being loaded.
" The following changes the default filetype back to 'tex':
let g:tex_flavor='latex'

In addition, the following settings could go in your ~/.vim/ftplugin/tex.vim file:

" this is mostly a matter of taste. but LaTeX looks good with just a bit
" of indentation.
set sw=2
" TIP: if you write your \label's as \label{fig:something}, then if you
" type in \ref{fig: and press <C-n> you will automatically cycle through
" all the figure labels. Very useful!
set iskeyword+=:

Though I must say I find nothing particularly unusual in here, except perhaps for:

let g:tex_flavor='latex'