Thanks, that clears a few things up for me. I was under the impression 
that tex was considered a proper extension for latex files in the vim 
latex suite. Always nice to discover a bug to be a feature. :)

Ciao,
Michael

Albrecht Mühlenschulte wrote:
> When opening a new Buffer named <somthing>.tex the filetype in vim is
> set to "plaintex" (viewable via ":set filetype"). This filetype is not
> connected with the vim-latexsuite, which is totally right, since .tex is
> also the extension for plain-original-knuth-like TeX-Files (which are
> not supportet by vimLaTeX-suite).
>
> When opening a file which is named <something>.tex the filetype is set
> to "plaintex" UNLESS the file begins with "\documentclass..." which is a
> strong evidence the file is a LaTeX and not a plainTeX-file. In this
> case vim sets the filetype variable to "tex" (and loads vim-
> latexplugin).
>
> Files ending to .latex are automatically identified as LaTeX-files.
>
> So it's not a bug, it's a feature ;).
>
> If you want to write a LaTeX file in a newly created buffer, just type
> ":set filetype=tex" and everything is the way you want it. If you
> neverever will will write a plaintex-file you may put this into your
> .vimrc to override the _wise_ defaults:
>
> autocmd BufNewFile,Bufread *.tex set filetype=tex
>
> ** Changed in: vim-latexsuite (Ubuntu)
>        Status: Confirmed => Invalid
>
>   


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