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What are the differences between LaTeX plugins?
I will not provide an in-depth comparison, as I only have limited experience with the different plugins. I know a couple of plugins well (LaTeX-Box and LaTeX-Suite), and I know one plugin very well, ...
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How do I get Vim to compile my .tex file when executing :w?
Don't be so inefficient! Your time is valuable. Use the vimtex plugin offered by @lervag: see here. You can control all of the plugins you install by using Vundle or any similar plugin manager (vim-...
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Why does vim still auto-indent LaTeX after I set noai noci nosi?
'indentexpr' has the highest priority of how vim can automatically indent lines.
:h 'indentexpr':
When this option is not empty, it overrules the 'cindent' and
'smartindent' indenting.
Your ...
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Why does Vim highlight "in" in tex files and how can I stop it?
You can find out what syntax item applies by positioning the cursor and using something like:
:echo synIDattr(synID(line("."), col("."), 1), "name")
Because that's quite ...
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Folding slow with vimtex
First: Did you bother to read the vimtex documentation, i.e. :h vimtex-folding? The docs clearly point out that the fold-expr method of folding is slow, and so therefore provides an option g:...
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Unable to set iskeyword for colon ( : ) character
You are looking for
set iskeyword-=:
That is, making : explicitly not a keyword character. If : is in iskeyword it will be included in ciw.
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How to force vimtex to display \textbf and \textit in insert/normal mode?
This is not due to vimtex directly, but due to the conceal feature in Vim. vimtex only adds to the syntax plugin that ships with Vim/neovim, and it adhers to the relevant option, see :help g:...
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How can I make quick environment or command changes in LaTeX
If you use the vimtex plugin, you can:
Change an enclosing command using csc:
According to the help, a ysc corresponding to the commands offered by surround.vim isn't available, but can be added. ...
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Use search matches as parameters in external command
To avoid leaving the buffer for entering the password, you can use sudo's -S flag:
-S, --stdin
Write the prompt to the standard error and read the password
from the ...
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Yank both sides of equation
This can be done with either regex+substitute or macros
Substitute. This is the same as your regex except the important parts are surrounded by \( . \) to create capture groups. These are referred ...
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Why is my # mapping behaving oddly in TeX files?
This is probably because there's another multi-key mapping that starts with a #; this is added by the TeX-specific plugin you have and loaded only for those files. You can reproduce it with:
inoremap #...
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Compiling whole LaTeX projects
I would say that you are approaching this the wrong way. If you want to use a very minimalistic solution without any plugins, I would claim that you should not have anything in your vimrc file for ...
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Mathematical expressions in TeX files are displayed in a human-readable way
This functionality comes from the internal LaTeX plugin. See :h tex-conceal and :h g:tex_conceal. You can turn it off either by setting conceallevel=0 or by letting g:tex_conceal=''. To be more ...
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Completion past special characters
If the chapter, section etc. labels are in the same file, or in any other open buffers, you can still use Ctrl-n/Ctrl-p. You just have to add : to the keyword characters, with:
:set iskeyword+=:
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How do I spellcheck TeX files using vim-lexical, skipping some command arguments but not others?
First: This is not related to vim-lexical. Syntax rules define where spell checking should be done, and so the current behaviour is defined by the internal syntax plugin for LaTeX.
The default syntax ...
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Indentation in Latex within a list after an equation
The reason this is happening is because the indentexpr [1] prefers text to be indented inside \items. You can see this by pressing gg=G. This is what it considers correct indenting:
\begin{document}...
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Syntax highlighting of underscores in LaTeX, even though they only appear in filenames
This is happening because the syntax file for LaTeX does not recognize \subfile{ as a command which takes a file name. You can customize this as follows.
In your config directory (.vim, .config/...
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Syntax of :endif in if-statements
Rather than figuring out what's going on with your existing mappings, it's easier and more readable just to use a function, instead:
nnoremap <F5> :call <SID>compile_latex()<CR>
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Trigger reindentation after snippet has expanded to word in 'indentkeys'
You can manually fix the indent by typing CTRL-F (this is documented at :help indentkeys-format). Thus, an autonomous solution would be to issue this key-press after snippet expansion.
global !p
def ...
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Unable to conditionally test for presence of a plugin command & invoke it
The problem is, your vimrc file is executed before any plugins are loaded. You can check the order of what source files are loaded by issueing the :scriptnames command.
The usual way to fix this ...
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Silence command but not its output
As Ben said in the comments prompting the command used before its result is a built-in behavior that you can not change without modifying Vim's source code.
However a possible workaround is to use :h ...
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How is filetype tex and plaintex set in vanilla Vim?
The filetype of a .tex file is determined by the content of the file.
In particular, if the first lines contains:
%&plaintex then it will be considered plaintex,
%&tex then it will be ...
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Fix syntax highlighting after unmatched parentheses
This is a very difficult problem. It is such a corner case of what people need, that I would not personally want to support it directly. Thus I also won't try to come with a direct answer to your ...
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How do I get Vim to compile my .tex file when executing :w?
If you use tpope's Dispatch plugin:
https://github.com/tpope/vim-dispatch you can run commands in the background.
I use this snippet to run xelatex on every save:
augroup latex
autocmd!
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Turn off Vim spellcheck in custom region
By placing that line by itself in ~/.vim/after/syntax/tex.vim instead of adding it to a copy of $VIMRUNTIME/syntax/tex.vim in ~/.vim/syntax/tex.vim, the spell checking behavior was disabled between \...
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Using Text Objects with vimtex
I think you do not really understand what a text object is. I therefore recommend that you read :h text-objects. When you have read and understood this, you should be able to understand the vimtex ...
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Replace text and move cursor to end of replacement in insert mode
One way to get this effect is to instead adaptively enter either \( or \) depending on which is needed. So the first $ will type \( and the second will type \). To figure out which we need, we use ...
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Syntax highlighting of underscores in LaTeX, even though they only appear in filenames
If you want to turn off this behavior in general, add following to your vimrc
let g:tex_no_error=1
The documentation found under :h g:tex_no_error: is
*tex-error* *g:...
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Make conditional imap to text being enclosed in certain characters
This is actually a complicated matter. $...$ is a difficult construct to parse, because it has no clear beginning or end. That is, in math here? $ or math here? $ math here?, how do you know which ...
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