Tip #469: The use of  %< instead of %

This tips is for vim or gvim user. We know the following map

map! /' ^[:w^M:! latex %^Mi

is doing the following. By typing "/'" in insert mode, this
will save the current tex file, and compile it.
The reader understand that one can change "/'" by anything he want,
as long as it does not bug its own configuration, I like this map 'cause
on an english keyboard both / and  ' are close to eachother.

We may wonder
what to do if we wish to open the associated dvi file?!
Indeed one has to replace % by %<.dvi and then we get

map! <F4> ^[:! xdvi %<.dvi ^Mi
or
map! <F4> ^[:! kdvi %<.dvi ^M
if you are using K environement.

The same thing apply indeed for any other extension i.e.,
the map
map! <F5> ^[:! gv %<.ps ^Mi
will open the associated ps file with gv.


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