latex-snippets VS spacemacs

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

latex-snippets

Vim + LaTeX snippets setup (by gillescastel)

spacemacs

A community-driven Emacs distribution - The best editor is neither Emacs nor Vim, it's Emacs *and* Vim! (by syl20bnr)
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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

spacemacs

Posts with mentions or reviews of spacemacs. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-07-30.

What are some alternatives?

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

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

doom - Doom Emacs config

homebrew-emacs-plus - Emacs Plus formulae for the Homebrew package manager

GNU Emacs - Mirror of GNU Emacs

prelude - Prelude is an enhanced Emacs 25.1+ distribution that should make your experience with Emacs both more pleasant and more powerful.

xah-fly-keys - the most efficient keybinding for emacs

awesome-emacs - A community driven list of useful Emacs packages, libraries and other items.

evil - The extensible vi layer for Emacs.

vim-pandoc - pandoc integration and utilities for vim

nano-emacs - GNU Emacs / N Λ N O - Emacs made simple

ipython - Official repository for IPython itself. Other repos in the IPython organization contain things like the website, documentation builds, etc.