Index: /issm/trunk/externalpackages/vim/vim.AddOns/issm.vimrc
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--- /issm/trunk/externalpackages/vim/vim.AddOns/issm.vimrc	(revision 5104)
+++ /issm/trunk/externalpackages/vim/vim.AddOns/issm.vimrc	(revision 5105)
@@ -158,4 +158,9 @@
 au BufRead,BufNewFile *.tex set wrapmargin=0      "no margin
 
+" 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'
+
 " ----------------------------------------------------------------------}}}
 "  InsertTabWrapper{{{1
@@ -200,3 +205,9 @@
 au BufRead,BufNewFile *.c* iab <expr> p0  "printf(\"-------------- file: ".expand('%')." line: %i\\n\",__LINE__);"
 au BufRead,BufNewFile *.c* iab <expr> pp0 "PetscSynchronizedPrintf(MPI_COMM_WORLD,\"-------------- file: ".expand('%')." line: %i\\n\",__LINE__);\nPetscSynchronizedFlush(MPI_COMM_WORLD);"
+"tex
+au BufRead,BufNewFile *.tex iab EQ 
+			\\begin{equation}
+			\<CR>
+			\<CR>\end{equation}<up><C-R>=Eatchar('\s')<CR>
+au BufRead,BufNewFile *.tex ab (()) \left( \right)
 "}}}