Questions tagged [filetype-tex]
Questions about editing Tex documents, either with or without a frontend such a LaTeX.
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How to disable ligatures “inside the editor” while using vim for latex documents? [duplicate]
I'm using vim for writing LaTeX documents. I also have vim-latex installed. While I'm writing my documents in the editor, I get ligatures for that piece of text which is meaningful for the LaTeX ...
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TeX file, search outside math
Well, the question is clear. I want to search only on text that is not inside \[ \] or $ $ .
Is there some readymade code to do so?
Thanks.
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Stop Snippet from Triggering Inside Other Snippet
I am using ultisnips with Gilles Castel's subscript snippet along with a snippet I found on SE to create matrices in latex rather quickly. Unfortunately, I can't use the matrices snippet because it ...
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Latex-Suite in Vim exits out of tex document if there's a warning in the aux file on compilation
I recently installed Latex-Suite using Vundle, and I use Latex to take notes. My notes are separate files for each lecture, but I have a master.tex file set up to compile each document together, and I ...
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Unable to conditionally test for presence of a plugin command & invoke it
I have the following code in my vimrc
if exists(":Goyo")
augroup LatexGoyo
autocmd!
autocmd BufReadPost,BufNewFile *.tex Goyo
augroup END
else
augroup LatexColumnSet
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Why does vim still auto-indent LaTeX after I set noai noci nosi?
I want to disable autoindent and smartindent for LaTeX so I did
:set noai noci nosi
When I open a brand new mwe.tex, filetype=plaintex and there is no auto indent magic.
When I then enter some code,...
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Vimtex conceal doesn't recognize new command math environment
I recently added the vimtex plugin which includes a conceal feature which I really like; however, I found it doesn't work in custom math environments such as
\newcommand{\beq}{\begin{equation}}
\...
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How to set LaTeX syntax to “ConTeXt” in vimrc
TL;DR: How do I permanently and persistently :set syntax=context for *.tex files?
I've been using vim for a LaTeX project, with monokai-tasty as the colour scheme.
The default syntax highlighting ...
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How can I make $ in LaTeX insert \( and \) automatically? [duplicate]
I'm writing a lot of LaTeX recently, and am used to hitting the $ key for inline math, but have heard that \( and \) is better (apparently it confuses vim less, especially with $$, which I'm also not ...
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Yank both sides of equation
While writing in latex I often want to copy a math equation's right hand side or left hand side. For example I have something like this
\begin{gather*}
5 \cdot \left( A A 3 \right) + 50 \cdot \...
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context for multiple snippets
I have a function that determines whether I am in a mathmatical context within latex, using ultisnips. I want to this to be applied to many snippets at once.
context "math()"
snippet fun "function" ...
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Execute command only for specified filetype
I'm setting up an environment to automatically recompile .tex files on save. I've found solution for this:
autocmd BufWritePost *.tex :! latexmk -pdf
But is there any better way to do this? It seems ...
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When does the file depending plugin kicks in?
I'm learning to use Vim with vim-latex and I'm wondering when does the plugin actually activates once I open a file.
My intuition tells me that any file with the .tex extension should do it, but if I ...
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vimrc and finding errors in latex document
To find errors in a latex document, I open vim on the .log file. Then I type manually
/^l\.\|[Ee]rr\|[Ww]ar followed by RETURN
This extended regular expression works well. It matches a line starting ...
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How to show all LaTeX code but still have set conceallevel=3 for vim-devicons and NERDTree?
How can I adjust my .vimrc so that set conceallevel=0 is specific to just LaTeX documents?
The plugin vim-devicons requires the following conceal level with NERDTree:
set conceallevel=3
However, ...
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Run pdflatex in vim without a pop-up window
I currently have this autocommand in my vimrc:
autocmd BufWritePost *.tex silent! execute "!pdflatex %" | redraw!
It compiles my current LaTeX file whenever I save with :w. However, a terminal ...
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UltiSnips: snippets not expanding
This is a noob question. I just installed UltiSnip to make use of the TeX snippets. Here is the relevant part of my init.vim:
" Specify a directory for plugins (powered by vim-plug)
call plug#begin('~...
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VIM conceal doesn't work
VIM doesn't conceal text, for example tex. Here's my vimrc:
"commands for vim-plug
"PlugInstall - installs plugs
"PlugUpdate - updates plugs
"PlugClean - remove unused directories
"PlugUpgrade -...
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Multiline errorformat
I would like to parse the latex log to extract warnings from the refcheck package. These warnings look like this
Package refcheck Warning: Unused label `eq:my_equation_label' on input line 2
28.
The ...
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Latex-suite <alt-I> mapping
Last week I reinstalled Ubuntu 18.04 LTS on my laptop. During my last installation of ubuntu (also 18.04) I learned vim and used it in combination with the latex-suite. However on this new ...
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Stop vim-latex from autocompiling on save
I'm not sure if it has always happened or its just recent, but vim auto-compiles on each save (:w). I would like to only manually compile (I use a hot-keyed pdflatex command instead).
I've had a ...
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Ignore acronyms as spelling errors in TeX files
My LaTeX files contain lots of acronyms and they are often highlighted as spelling errors. I tried to ignore acronyms by adding
syn match AcronymNoSpell '\<\(\u\|\d\)\{3,}s\?\>' contains=@...
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How to stop vim from automatically displaying latex formatting? [duplicate]
I have a latex file I am editing in vim. Something annoying that I'm running into is that vim seems to auto display things that I am typesetting in math mode.
Here is an example. Say I write the ...
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custom syntax hilighting lost on single LaTeX file
I use vimtex plugin for writing tex documents in vim8. I added custom hilight for sections in my .vimrc like so:
autocmd FileType tex :syntax match texSectioning "\\section.*"
The texSectioning is ...
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inoremap inserts unwanted tabs
I recently made myself custom insert mode keybindings to type faster in LaTeX. However, When I use them, Vim adds tabs that weren't part of the original keybinding.
Example:
Here is my inoremap:
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UltiSnips, Context and Tex
For best experience, I want to enable some snippets to be expanded only in Tex Math environments. A wonderful person, lacygoill helped me on GitHub to achieve just this with the following setup:
Let ...
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LaTeX indent for \iff error in vim
With the minimal vimrc (with vimtex plugin):
set nocp
filetype plugin indent on
syntax on
set st=2
set acd
set wildmenu
set wildmode=longest,list,full
let $USRPLUGD=$HOME.'\vimfiles\myvim\plugged'
...
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fnameescape() : add other characters to be escaped (parenthesis, commas etc)
I looked around for a long time but did not find any solution for that. On my Unix system (Ubuntu), using LaTeX-suite, I need to escape some characters in file names for compilation, say parenthesis (,...
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Make conditional imap to text being enclosed in certain characters
How can I create mappings that work only if the cursor is enclosed by certain characters?
As an example, I want to map ja to \alpha if the cursor is enclosed by $$ or by \[\] so as to make
This jar ...
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How to force vimtex to display \textbf and \textit in insert/normal mode? [duplicate]
When I add \textbf{} or \textit{} before a word in vimtex the terminal shows the word but strangely hides the commands. I can only see them in the visual mode (see pictures below). Is there a way to ...
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Read the first line of the current file to process it in a command (Emulating %TeX root)
Currently I have the line
:nnoremap <leader>c :w<CR>:!arara %<CR><CR>
in my $MYVIMRC. If I press <leader>c, it will save the current file and run the command arara on ...
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How to map a call to a system function using the current filename?
I've been using vim for a little while and I'm doing some LaTeX with it, using Tectonic as the engine.
What I was doing to generate the pdf (without leaving the editor)
:call system("tectonic main....
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How to map <C-Space> to ESC
I am using
nnoremap <C-Space> i
inoremap <C-Space> <Esc>
to map to Esc. It works for all file with any extension but it doesn't work for the files with ".tex" extension ( I am ...
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Unable to set iskeyword for colon ( : ) character
I am using vim to edit LaTeX files.
Throughout the text, there are labels to equations, tables etc. for which an accepted convention among TeX writers is the following
\label{eq:massenergy} , \...
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Syntax highlight Markdown formulas using LaTeX highlighting
I often write non-trivial mathematical formulas inside Markdown documents, and having them syntax-highlighted would really help.
In Markdown, LaTeX math formulae are denoted:
$x^2$ and $$x^2$$, and ...
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Trigger reindentation after snippet has expanded to word in 'indentkeys'
The ftplugin vimtex provides the file indent/tex.vim with following line
setlocal indentkeys+=[,(,{,),},],\&,=item,=else,=fi
'indentkeys' 'indk' string (default "0{,0},:,0#,!^F,o,O,e")
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Matching interval brackets
I'm using vim to edit LaTeX code, and I'm often writing intervals like (a,b] but this messes with other vim features. For instance,
Jumping with %: if I have something like \phi((a,b]), the final ) ...
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macvim does not recognize math latex symbols anymore
I am running Macvim 8.0.1633 (146) on macos 10.13.3
Weirdly, even with syntax on, the math highlighting is plain wrong:
Here, I didn't search for end{equation} Does anyone know what is going on?
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Do not wrap certain environments [duplicate]
I am using neovim.
When editing a .tex file I don't want to wrap the lines within certain environments like equation or align and some others.
\begin{equation}
% very long line I don't want to ...
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formatoptions for hybrid (short markup + long paragraphs) content
I am trying to write my PhD thesis in vim using LaTeX
So the documents will have two distinct types of content - markups that are relatively short, and paragraph text that is rather long.
\begin{...
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Syntax of :endif in if-statements
I have the following code in my vimrc to compile my latex documents with <F5>:
map <F5> :write <Bar> :if expand("%") == "body.tex" <bar>
:exe ':!arara -v "main.tex"' <cr>...
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vim - latex suite compile and view keys does not work
I'm trying to setup vim-LaTeX on a new pc and I'm having problems with compile and view. (
\ll and \lv commands).
When I push \ll I get the following error;
Error detected while processing function ...
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Syntax highlighting of underscores in LaTeX, even though they only appear in filenames
I'm using nvim and LaTeX together, and for the most part it's been great. However, nvim appears to be incorrectly highlighting underscores that appear in filenames I include as part of the subfiles ...
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Vimtex commands only working on main file
Hi I am trying out vimtex on a multi-file project, and so far I was liking it a lot. However, I just found out that vimtex commands (\lv, \lt, \li, etc) work correctly when used while editing the main ...
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Replace text and move cursor to end of replacement in insert mode
How can I perform a search-and-replace and leave the cursor at the end of the replacement? I want to replace $...$ with \(...\) as I type in insert mode.
Notice that I can't use an abbreviation, ...
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New text object for LaTeX subscript or superscript
Suppose in a latex file, I have a line
$X_{i_{j}}$ and $Y^{i_{k}}$
My goal is to define a text object in VIM for the subscript, i.e. _{i_{j}}, and superscript, i.e. ^{i_{k}}.
I was reading this ...
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Indentation in Latex within a list after an equation
Here is a minimal .tex file:
\begin{document}
\begin{itemize}
\item Here is an equation:
\begin{align*}
x = y
\end{align*}
\item Here is another item
...
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Insert text automatically surrounded by other text
For easy typesetting of song sheets using the leadsheets LaTeX package I want to make a shortcut for vim.
Using the leadsheets package, chords are inserted into the lyrics like this:
^{Am7}Sunny
So ...
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in-line math equation rendering/preview for macvim/vim for filetypes other than RMarkdown
I recently installed vim-rmarkdown package, and found that the package allows me to see the rendered math equation in macvim, and when move cursor over, the line will render back to latex equation ...
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spacevim remapping of plugin keybindings
I am totally new to using Vim, and I have been trying out SpaceVim so far. One issue is with keybindings. So I have the Vimtex and Vim-Latex plugins installed. I want to use the compilation option ...
