Vim is an advanced text editor and IMproved version of the Unix editor Vi.
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Help me to write Long LaTeX equations fast with colours and possibly with other aids
I am too slow LaTeX-typist, for example with the equations below I cannot find where I am missing some bracket. Could someone offer me some computational method? I use Vim but I am happy with any ...
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What does <++> signify when using Vim LatexSuite?
I have a LaTeX editing environment that does some assistive stuff such as auto-indenting, closing parentheses, etc.
However, one of the things that it does is unknown to me, and is difficult to ...
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What is your favorite vi or vim command trick?
I just saw a similar question about Emacs/AUCTeX so this one was coming. I use nvi for all my editing including TeX and it would not change it for anything. However, even after almost 20 years of use ...
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How to setup synctex with vim, pdflatex and an open-source PDF-viewer under Linux?
Inspired by the comments to this answer I am curious how to actually setup and use forward/reverse (inverse) search with vim, pdflatex and an open-source PDF-viewer under Linux.
Btw, to give more ...
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Adding extra lines/spaces in source, *not* affecting semantics
I'm editing a file with quite huge interleaves of text and formulas like this
lorem ipsums
\begin{align}
foo & bar\\
qux & rofl\\
& toto
\end{align}
lorem ipsums
…
And I face ...
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Intelligent paragraph reflowing in vim?
I'm not sure whether this is an appropriate question for tex.SE. If you think questions like this should not be asked here, please voice you concern. If necessary I'll open a question on meta.
For ...
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How can I turn Vim LatexSuite on Manually?
VLS's commands such as ^J and F5 do not work always for me inside Vim so how can turn VLS manually or do some other tricks to get VLS working more often? The word "often" could mean that VLS gets ...
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Issues when compiling TeX files with Vim and LaTeX-suite
I'm having problems compiling a TeX file with LaTeX-suite on Ubuntu.
In my .vimrc, I have the following lines :
filetype plugin on
set grepprg=grep\ -nH\ $*
filetype indent on
let ...
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vim LateX-Suite indentation and line breaking
I'm now setting up Vim for use with LaTeX. This is about setting up the indentation. In the picture below, there are many things that need tweaking. Everything between \vskip .5cm and \vskip 1in is ...
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TexShop + MacVim ?
Is there a blend of TexShop and Vim?
It is supposed to combine the advantages of SyncTeX and other features of TeXShop and the power of a Vim editor.
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Issues when using inverse/forward search with vim and xdvi (linux)
I am using vim 7.3.35 with the vim-latexsuite on ubuntu. After googling around I managed to setup forward/inverse search with xdvi by adding the following to my .vimrc:
let g:Tex_CompileRule_dvi = ...
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latex-suite on OSX - citation completion not working [closed]
So I have just installed latex-suite using the default version of vim that ships with OSX 10.6. The problem I'm having is that \cite completion is not working properly. This is what happens:
Begin ...
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Errors/Warnings in LaTeX Output
I use Vim to edit LaTeX documents and pdflatex to compile the documents. One problem with using pdflatex is that it takes time to go through the output to see if there is any warning/errors. ...
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When loading LaTeX files in vim (7.3) I get the error “perhaps you should insert a `~' before '\ref' ”
I have the over 30 errors in my LaTeX file, all over the \ref{...} command, and all following this similar pattern (I put it as a quote instead of code as it is long and code does not wrap)
I ...
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compiling pdflatex from the terminal in vim [closed]
A file I can compile in Texmaker won't compile after editing in Vim. I am giving the error hw9problem1xplot can't be found. This is from an includegraphics command. However, the pdf image file is ...
