Question

I am trying to apply the following setting for my .tex files:

set scroll=4

I’ve put this both in my ~/.vimrc and in my ~/.vim/ftplugin/tex.vim file.
For general files, this works fine. For .tex files, all other settings in these files are applied. But not the scroll setting.

Note: I have latex-suite installed, which is what I suspect is overriding the setting.

When I type

:verbose set scroll

I get:

  scroll=22
    Last set from ~/.vim/ftplugin/tex.vim

Note: 22 is half the height (number of lines) of the gvim window.

If I source the ~/.vim/ftplugin/tex.vim file while editing, the scroll setting is applied fine, but I want it to be applied along with the other settings at startup.

Thanks

Update:

Thanks for the good advice. It didn’t work yet though. I looked at scriptnames and here’s the output:

    62: /home/patrick/.vim/after/ftplugin/tex.vim
    63: /home/patrick/.vim/indent/tex.vim
    64: /usr/share/vim/vim72/syntax/bib.vim
    65: /home/patrick/.vim/ftplugin/bib_latexSuite.vim
    66: /home/patrick/.vim/after/ftplugin/bib.vim
    67: /usr/share/vim/vim72/indent/bib.vim
    68: /home/patrick/.vim/nerdtree_plugin/exec_menuitem.vim
    69: /home/patrick/.vim/nerdtree_plugin/fs_menu.vim

As you can see, I also added a bib.vim file in the after/ftplugin directory, because I’m loading 4 tabs at startup, one of which is a bib file.
However, it still doesn’t work.

Update 2

Well I still got the same problem, but with more information. I’m now running a Windows build of vim. Again vim claims scroll was last set in ~/.vimrc. But this gets overridden whenever

• I open a new tab (with any old file, so the vimrc setting should
  still apply)
• I resize the gvim window

Hence I no longer believe this has anything to do with latex-suite or the order in which the settings are called.

Answer 1

I figured out a fix/hack. It probably hasn’t got anything to do with latex suite or all that. It is overridden when a new tab is opened or the window is resized. A quick fix is to use

noremap <C-u> 4<C-u>

Which consequently is always used when scrolling. This also sets the scroll variable to 4, so it will apply to as well.