latex-snippets VS dotfiles

Compare latex-snippets vs dotfiles and see what are their differences.

latex-snippets

Vim + LaTeX snippets setup (by gillescastel)

dotfiles

My dotfiles for Bash/Zsh, Vim/Neovim, Doom Emacs, tmux, Git, terminal emulators, JupyterLab, aria2, mpv, Nix and Homebrew (by g6ai)
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latex-snippets dotfiles
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Vim Snippet Vim Script
MIT License GNU General Public License v3.0 only
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latex-snippets

Posts with mentions or reviews of latex-snippets. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-07-31.
  • LaTeX3: Programming in LaTeX with Ease
    6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 31 Jul 2023
    Though I'm not the same commenter, I personally got over the curve by learning from the LaTeX-tutorial.com website recommended by my professor of a math course, and then by learning how to use the Vim text editor with LaTeX. I also took a math course that happened to required weekly problem sets to be submitted in LaTeX.

    The first stage of learning was to learn LaTeX with from the website LaTeX-Tutorial.com, which includes a tutorial with no paywall [1]. I paid the closest attention to tutorials 00 to 05 for the core functionality, then skimmed the rest of the tutorial, as I would only rarely use the remaining features. (For tables, even after gaining a general familiarity with how the tabular environment work, I still found it faster to use the Tables Generator website [3], which was also recommended by my instructor).

    I then gained practice using TeXstudio as I preferred an offline program, though my professor and most of my fellow students used Overleaf as an online editor. However, I found that I spent a lot of time transcribing handwritten problem sets into LaTeX documents on TeXstudio and Overleaf, and searched for a faster and more pleasant method (in particular, I found that there was a significant delay in my experience when compiling LaTeX code to a PDF with TeXstudio and Overleaf).

    That was the source of my motivation for learning how to use Vim with LaTeX, though you should have enough knowledge for effectively writing LaTeX documents with just the information from the LaTeX tutorial website. I was also motivated due to my curiosity about Vim in general, from past discussions on the text editor in an xkcd comic and various forum discussions.

    To begin the learning process for Vim, I completed the default-installed Vim tutorial (also motivated because I was curious about Vim in general, from past discussions on the text editor in an xkcd comic and various forum discussions) over a weekend day. Crucially, I followed most of the advice from a Hacker Noon article [4] about more efficient ways to scroll up and down. I then edited the .vimrc config file to allow for using the cursor to keep things simple, using most of the default configurations for Neovim.

    Then, I roughly followed E.J. Mastnak's guide at [1] to get set up, over the course of another weekend day. After some troubleshooting with the configuration, I finally got the setup to work, and I’ve happily been using Vim with LaTeX since then. Since the process reduced the friction to compile LaTeX code to a PDF, I compiled my document more often, so I could catch errors early and often (I rarely spend time troubleshooting and debugging LaTeX code now, since I now fix errors shortly very after they appear, as I compile the document every few lines of code or so).

    The main major drawback of using Vim and LaTeX was that I followed the advice to enable autocompletion with snippets (e.g. typing “AA” automatically types in “\forall”) via the the UltiSnips software, which would make substitutions without an audible notification (in contrast to other software that I use to make snippets outside of Vim, that would make an audible ping before a substitution). That led to some significant typos in an early assignment I submitted, and I since learned from my mistake to be far more careful when using Vim with LaTeX for enabling snippets. However, snippets also functioned as a nice learning tool, as I would learn through practice what some basic commands would be, through the auto-substitution (for example, I’ve now easily remembered through exposure that <= is written as `\leq`) in LaTeX.

    To conclude, you can use free tutorials to learn the basics of LaTeX, and use Overleaf and TeXstudio to practice. For additional speed and pleasantness, you can spend a couple focused weekend days (or possibly more) to learn how to use Vim with LaTeX following another free guide. Then, you can reinforce your learning through regular practice (in my experience, my regular practice was necessary due to requirements of a math course—if your work or education similarly requires LaTeX, a real-life necessity is a great motivator for practicing document production with LaTeX).

    [1] https://latex-tutorial.com/tutorials/

    [2] https://www.ejmastnak.com/tutorials/vim-latex/intro/

    [3] https://www.tablesgenerator.com

    [4] https://hackernoon.com/learning-vim-what-i-wish-i-knew-b5dca...

    [5] https://github.com/gillescastel/latex-snippets/blob/master/t...

  • Troubles to set up vimtex and ultisnips for latex
    2 projects | /r/vim | 19 Mar 2022
    I copied the vim configuration which is in https://github.com/gillescastel/latex-snippets into my vimrc. But I don't know how to acess to the "~/.vim/UltiSnips/" file to copy all the snippets that Gilles Castel putted in the link . Also when i open a vim .tex file, some features of vimtex don't work: it doesn't compile, it doesn't show the zathura pdf that i installed by the "sudo apt install zathura" command and some latex command are replaced by their symbols (like \cap) while other aren't (like \cup).
    2 projects | /r/vim | 19 Mar 2022
    My ~/.vimrc configuration is just copied from this website https://github.com/gillescastel/latex-snippets
  • How to check if you're in markdown math?
    2 projects | /r/neovim | 6 Sep 2021
    I was trying to use some of Gilles Castel's LaTeX snippets for my own notetaking, which I do on nvim with markdown, using pandoc to convert to pdf. The problem with this is that the tex snippets are designed to be activated only when in LaTeX math, but there's no function to directly check this in the plugin I'm using for pandoc markdown.
  • Emacs' org-mode gets citation support
    10 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 5 Aug 2021
  • help with ultisnips and vimtex
    2 projects | /r/vim | 23 Jul 2021
  • A place to learn LaTeX online (learnlatex.org)
    2 projects | /r/math | 18 Mar 2021

dotfiles

Posts with mentions or reviews of dotfiles. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-07-23.
  • help with ultisnips and vimtex
    2 projects | /r/vim | 23 Jul 2021
    Yep I'm using VimTeX + UltiSnips. My configs are https://github.com/g6ai/dotfiles, look into vim directory for VimTeX config and UltiSnips snippets. The \cite{ completion is handled by coc.nvim and its extension coc-vimtex, relevant configs are all in my vimrc there. Any questions are welcome.
  • https://np.reddit.com/r/tmux/comments/nvsmym/tmux_changes_zsh_p10k_prompt_color/h151wjm/
    2 projects | /r/backtickbot | 9 Jun 2021
    My tmux.conf and zsh powerlevel10k settings render like this.
  • Tmux Bug on display with Neovim
    3 projects | /r/tmux | 29 May 2021
    Interestingly, I encountered this problem only in Vim, while Neovim is fine. Of course a workaround is apply !redraw. But I think this might be related to our dotfiles. I won't bother solving this right now, if you are interested here are my dotfiles.
  • How does this compare to alacritty performance wise?
    2 projects | /r/KittyTerminal | 14 Apr 2021
    My own experience is kitty and Alacritty are all fast enough (low enough latency) and do not eat too much system resources. So I think maybe a capability comparison is more useful (common character/glyph display capability, not terminal special) , and I just wrote one here.
  • A comparison of terminal emulators on macOS
    2 projects | /r/commandline | 14 Apr 2021
  • using vimtex#imaps#style_math
    2 projects | /r/vim | 21 Feb 2021
    I'm using vimtex as well, mainly for writing my thesis. I need to deal with units and chemical notation, so I use Ultisnips to auto replace keywords to use siunitx and mhchem packages. I keep those snippets up to date here https://github.com/g6ai/dotfiles/blob/master/vim/UltiSnips/tex.snippets regex pattern is heavily used to cater my habits.
  • How to hide the line below statusline? [Neovim Airline]
    2 projects | /r/vim | 27 Jan 2021
    During Vim startup, the file name and some other file info showed in the cmdline and then disappears, then left a black box in the cmdline (as red arrow points in the snapshot). I haven't managed to pinpoint the issue, any idea guys? (My .vimrc is here: https://github.com/g6ai/dotfiles/blob/master/vim/vimrc)

What are some alternatives?

When comparing latex-snippets and dotfiles you can also consider the following projects:

doom-emacs - An Emacs framework for the stubborn martian hacker [Moved to: https://github.com/doomemacs/doomemacs]

dotfiles-windows - My personal dotfiles for a Windows 10 machine. Check out https://git.io/JPHL7 for setting up a WSL2 environment as well.

vim-pandoc - pandoc integration and utilities for vim

kitty - Cross-platform, fast, feature-rich, GPU based terminal

spacemacs - A community-driven Emacs distribution - The best editor is neither Emacs nor Vim, it's Emacs *and* Vim!

chemacs2 - Emacs version switcher, improved

inkscape-figures - Inkscape figure manager

github-orgmode-tests - This is a test project where you can explore how github interprets Org-mode files

nuage_org_demo

tikzedt - Automatically exported from code.google.com/p/tikzedt

awesome-typst - Awesome Typst Links

orgmode - Orgmode clone written in Lua for Neovim 0.9+.