Re:Interview with TJ DeVries, Neovim core maintainer
by dfdz on Monday September 06, 2021 @02:59PM
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Thank you for the detailed answer, I really appreciate it.
It it great to know that the main developer for vimtex uses neovim.
I will try the neovim/vimtex/zathura combination used by the dev!
Re:Interview with TJ DeVries, Neovim core maintainer
by tambourine_man on Monday September 06, 2021 @04:17PM
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You gotta love HN. Threads like this just makes you smile.
Re:Interview with TJ DeVries, Neovim core maintainer
by dfdz on Monday September 06, 2021 @05:58PM
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Just to follow up, my attempts to get vimtex to work unfortunately were unsuccessful. However, along the way reading neovim plugin docs I started to figure out the difference between neovim and vim and was able to get things working via the following process:
sudo dnf install neovim
sudo dnf install python3-neovim
mkdir -p ~/.config/pack/foo/opt/mytex
cd ~/.config/pack/foo/opt/mytex
[download https://github.com/peterbjorgensen/sved/ftplugin]
cp ~/.vimrc ~/.config/nvim/init.vim
add the line "packadd mytex" to init.vim
add the line "alias vim='nvim'" to ~/.bashrc :)
vimtex works perfectly on neovim (in fact, the main developer uses neovim) and is very well documented
texlab (the latex lsp server) also does build and forward search (although there's a small bug at the moment)
Oh, and backward search needs neovim-remote (\o/ mhinz); just use nvr --remote +"%line" "%file" as backward search command
https://github.com/lervag/vimtex/blob/5d1335d095d11f48a6744f...
(the vimtex dev uses Zathura, so that may be an alternative viewer to look into)