LaTex-vim cannot compile files with spaces in name

Question

I followed the same procedure as in the answer to this question to download and install latex-vim. But when I compile a tex file, I get the following error message:

|| I can't find file `Rapport'. Rapport  sur la structure des groupes des units.tex
|| Emergency stop. Rapport  sur la structure des groupes des units.tex
||  ==> Fatal error occurred, no output PDF file produced!

It seems that I cannot compile files with spaces in the name, but, using other applications like sublime text, it all works quite fine.

I am using a mac el capitan, and both the vim in terminal and the mac vim fail to compile correctly the tex files, while other functionalities such as folding and indenting are all good and fine.

I am new to the world of vim, so thanks sincerely in advance for any help and reference, in advance.

Answer 1

Until an official fix is available, you can do the following: Edit the ftplugin/latex-suite/compiler.vim and change the lines

let mainfname = expand('%:p:t')

and

let mainfname = Tex_GetMainFileName(':p:t')

to

let mainfname = fnameescape(expand('%:p:t'))

and

let mainfname = fnameescape(Tex_GetMainFileName(':p:t'))

repectively.

This seems to fix the problem.

Answer 2

Sorry to dig out such an old post, but anyone found a similar solution to allow Tex_ViewLatex() to manage filenames with spaces too ? I passed every occurence of mainfname in fnameescape() in the same file compiler.vim in the ViewLatex() section, but this does not change anything.

I currently found an unsafe solution which is to add the shell-escape modifier, i.e. go from

let mainfname = fnameescape(Tex_GetMainFileName(':p:t:r'))

to

let mainfname = fnameescape(Tex_GetMainFileName(':p:t:r:S'))

Thanks.