I am not a developer, but it is my understanding that latex reads the
saved file when it compiles the dvi. I would expect it to be necessary to
save your buffer to disk with :w in order to compile it into a new dvi.
Personally, I like this design choice since it forces me to save my work
hey,
im using vim 7.2 at work and would like to also use latex-suite. ive
added everything to my vimfiles directory and made the recommended
changes to the _virmrc, and latex suite is recognized. however, when i
compile files that already exist after ive made changes to the
original tex file, they