The quest to integrate two powerful tool, Vim and LaTeX started when I wanted to make a new resume , which would look neat and crisp.
I started looking in the internet for the answers,surprisingly there was no clear documentation or procedure to start in spite of both being more than a decade old. After all the search for many days I figured out a way and thought it would be better if some how I could provide few guidelines so that you could have a quick start and explore the power of both.
LaTeX can be used by downloading several tools like TexMaker, LyX and Kile. But none of them has the power of Vim.There are three popular plugins for Vim according to Redditors.
1. Vim-LaTeX oldest,heavy, complex and feature rich.
2. LaTeXBox light and simple.
3. Automatic LaTeX Plugin heavy and simple.
I found LaTeX Box was the fastest and easiest to use LaTeX. But it only works if the Vim's ClientServer features has been installed in Vim. To check ,
"vim -h | grep servername"
If you don't have the feature, then need to compile the "huge" version of vim.
Installation Instructions
1. Download Vim from here
2. before installing "huge" version run this command
sudo apt-get install libncurses5-dev libgnome2-dev libgnomeui-dev \ libgtk2.0-dev libatk1.0-dev libbonoboui2-dev \ libcairo2-dev libx11-dev libxpm-dev libxt-dev
Huge means all features are enabled. The features are enabled based on checking the dependencies.if you don't have these packages installed then you would not have the complete feature rich Vim.
3 Configure and make the code
./configure --with-features=huge --enable-gui=gnome2 --enable-cscope
make
make install
4. Recheck your vim installation, and check for +clientserver
vim --version | grep clientserver
LaTeX Box depends on latexmk and texlive. These are the compilers of LaTeX . You can install them simply by calling the package manager.
sudo apt-get install latexmk texlive
now Install the LatexBox using Vundle(package manager for vim) . follow the link to install Vundle.
Bundle "LaTeX-Box"
BundleInstall
The whole installation process is done. You can start using the plugin by opening a TeX file with servername option
vim --servername <servername> <TeX file>
You can start compiling the code with "\ll" (leader L L) , view the pdf file by "\lv" (leader L V) and check errors with "\le" (leader L E). Enjoy using LaTeX and Vim together.
I started looking in the internet for the answers,surprisingly there was no clear documentation or procedure to start in spite of both being more than a decade old. After all the search for many days I figured out a way and thought it would be better if some how I could provide few guidelines so that you could have a quick start and explore the power of both.
LaTeX can be used by downloading several tools like TexMaker, LyX and Kile. But none of them has the power of Vim.There are three popular plugins for Vim according to Redditors.
1. Vim-LaTeX oldest,heavy, complex and feature rich.
2. LaTeXBox light and simple.
3. Automatic LaTeX Plugin heavy and simple.
I found LaTeX Box was the fastest and easiest to use LaTeX. But it only works if the Vim's ClientServer features has been installed in Vim. To check ,
"vim -h | grep servername"
If you don't have the feature, then need to compile the "huge" version of vim.
Installation Instructions
1. Download Vim from here
2. before installing "huge" version run this command
sudo apt-get install libncurses5-dev libgnome2-dev libgnomeui-dev \ libgtk2.0-dev libatk1.0-dev libbonoboui2-dev \ libcairo2-dev libx11-dev libxpm-dev libxt-dev
Huge means all features are enabled. The features are enabled based on checking the dependencies.if you don't have these packages installed then you would not have the complete feature rich Vim.
3 Configure and make the code
./configure --with-features=huge --enable-gui=gnome2 --enable-cscope
make
make install
4. Recheck your vim installation, and check for +clientserver
vim --version | grep clientserver
LaTeX Box depends on latexmk and texlive. These are the compilers of LaTeX . You can install them simply by calling the package manager.
sudo apt-get install latexmk texlive
now Install the LatexBox using Vundle(package manager for vim) . follow the link to install Vundle.
Bundle "LaTeX-Box"
BundleInstall
The whole installation process is done. You can start using the plugin by opening a TeX file with servername option
vim --servername <servername> <TeX file>
You can start compiling the code with "\ll" (leader L L) , view the pdf file by "\lv" (leader L V) and check errors with "\le" (leader L E). Enjoy using LaTeX and Vim together.
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