mako VS vimtex

Compare mako vs vimtex and see what are their differences.

mako

A lightweight Wayland notification daemon (by emersion)

vimtex

VimTeX: A modern Vim and neovim filetype plugin for LaTeX files. (by lervag)
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mako vimtex
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1,951 5,093
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7.0 8.9
7 days ago about 13 hours ago
C TeX
MIT License MIT License
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mako

Posts with mentions or reviews of mako. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-08-27.
  • Any software that can get me pop up windows when doing certain stuff?
    6 projects | /r/swaywm | 27 Aug 2022
    I use avizo as a volume indicator, mako for notifications generally.
  • Is there some app that lets you launch a simple text overlay?
    7 projects | /r/swaywm | 10 Aug 2022
    I guess some standard notifications app like https://github.com/emersion/mako doesn't suffice, as it isn't related to a window?
  • Thoughts over MicroOS aftering giving a try
    2 projects | /r/openSUSE | 28 Jul 2022
    mako is a Wayland notification daemon from one of the principal Sway/wlroots devs, and is currently provided with openSUSEway. It's pretty minimalist, but so are most things in the Sway/wlroots ecosystem.
  • Long time Arch user, moved to Gentoo a couple months ago.
    3 projects | /r/Gentoo | 26 Mar 2022
    It's a notification, I use mako: https://github.com/emersion/mako
  • What apps are you running on Sway? (Wayland Native Apps of course)
    20 projects | /r/swaywm | 7 Mar 2022
    Notifications: mako
  • Was told y'all might like my new laptop setup
    5 projects | /r/outrun | 1 Sep 2021
    The little one at the bottom right is mako, the music player is ncmpcpp and the music visualiser is cava
  • Notification center like window for sway
    2 projects | /r/swaywm | 22 Jul 2021
    Not really the same but still a cool notification Daemon https://github.com/emersion/mako
  • What are some automation scripts that have made your life easier?
    11 projects | /r/commandline | 15 Jul 2021
    # Details I'm an English speaker living abroad, and while I'm trying to learn the local language it's real hard. I found myself popping open a browser to use deepl quite frequently, or trying to find translator plugins for several different applications. To make this process easier, I wrote a script (bound to a hotkey) which will screenshot a selected area, OCR it, translate it to english, and show a notification with the translated text. It also copies the translated text to the clipboard. Why screenshot + OCR rather than just selecting and copying text? Images and screen-sharing, mostly. I think this is just a really cool way to show how the hard parts have usually been done for you, and all you need to do is put the blocks together. ## Implementation I'm running sway, so the several of the tools are Wayland specific. You could easily swap them out for xorg compatible variants if you like. The script is [here](https://github.com/rbuchberger/dotfiles/blob/master/scripts/screenshot\_translate). The toolchain is: * [Slurp](https://github.com/emersion/slurp) - select an area * [Grim](https://github.com/emersion/grim) - screenshot that area * [Tesseract](https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract) - OCR * [Translate Shell](https://www.soimort.org/translate-shell/) - Translation CLI * [Mako](https://github.com/emersion/mako) - Notification window Mako needed a little configuration to show long form text: [category=translation] width=900 height=1200 Edit: added details and links for the tools used.
  • [sway] fake busy for the updoots
    15 projects | /r/unixporn | 27 Dec 2020
    notification: mako

vimtex

Posts with mentions or reviews of vimtex. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-10.
  • My uses for vimwiki have dried up... and it makes me a little sad
    3 projects | /r/vim | 10 Jun 2023
    I use vimwiki almost daily, but it's not professional use, just daily notes and organizing my life. I started using zim but I found I really missed writing/editing with vim. Then I found vimwiki. There are things I'm not super happy about with it. I saw that /u/lervag (love his vimtex plugin) released a wiki plugin and I was/am interested in it, but I have so much in my wiki right now that I don't want to deal with conversion issues.
  • I like Tabasco.
    5 projects | /r/linuxmasterrace | 6 May 2023
    I do think VSCode is a great tool and I recommend it frequently to people, but I still want to set the record straight here. Yes, vim is obviously limited in the sense that as a CLI app it doesn't draw it's own PDF or HTML windows, that's fair. But it can remote control your favorite PDF viewer or browser for roughly the same functionality. I'm currently writing my thesis using vimtex and it's quite smooth. And all the other stuff you mention is implemented quite competently by various plugins like vim-fugitive, coc.nvim, vimspector and copilot.vim.
  • What are all the accepted "inner" motion arguments?
    6 projects | /r/vim | 25 Mar 2023
    Some language-specific plugins like vimtex also include their own text objects.
  • [VimTeX] vim on mac lags when trying to use includegraphics[]{} for attaching image to a .tex file
    2 projects | /r/vim | 26 Feb 2023
    I am new to Vim and LaTeX, but I'm trying to learn both at the same time so I started using VimTeX to edit .tex files on MacVim. I got almost everything working now (vimtex itself, zathura, autocomplete, etc.), but one thing. And that is Vim won't respond for a while whenever I try to include an image using \includegraphics[]{} from \usepackage{graphicx}. By typing so, MacVim will request permission to access several folders but then hangs from there for like at least 10 minutes while my computer gets super hot and fans kick on loudly like it's doing something heavy in the background.
    2 projects | /r/vim | 26 Feb 2023
    I would post an issue on the VimTeX Github page: https://github.com/lervag/vimtex/issues. That way you might also get help to disable the possible indexing. I have also needed to disable project file scanning to stop Vim from hanging, when pressing Ctrl + N to perform simple auto-complete.
  • Which vim plugins do not have a lua equivalent yet?
    23 projects | /r/neovim | 18 Feb 2023
    Absolutely VimTeX
  • Vim + LaTeX
    4 projects | /r/vim | 11 Feb 2023
    In that blog post that is done using the vim plugin vimtex, which gives you syntax highlighting, indentation, etc, and also provides a way of automatically compiling your latex code into a PDF.
  • PdfAnnots in Lua
    2 projects | /r/neovim | 6 Feb 2023
    Amazing! Here is the issue #2631.
    2 projects | /r/neovim | 6 Feb 2023
    I mostly use NeoVim to write LaTeX documents and was grateful to have u/lervag's help setting up PdfAnnots so that when hovering over a citation, I can run PdfAnnots on the associated pdf for that citation. Here is the Vimscript that he came up with: ``` function PdfAnnots() abort try let infile = vimtex#context#get().handler.get_actions().entry.file catch /E121/ echo "No file found" return endtry
  • [HELP] Configuring Vim-tex in NvChad config
    4 projects | /r/neovim | 6 Feb 2023
    Hi, I've been trying to configure vim-tex working on the NvChad configs. I got the :VimtexCompile working and giving me output pdf. But the usual ll is giving me these errors. Also in vim {{ would expand to \left{ \right}. It's not working with NeoVim. I'm using LuaSnip with friendly-snippets with the default config in NvChad.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing mako and vimtex you can also consider the following projects:

dunst - Lightweight and customizable notification daemon

coc-texlab - TexLab extension for coc.nvim

texlab - An implementation of the Language Server Protocol for LaTeX

tex-conceal.vim

sway - i3-compatible Wayland compositor

dust - A more intuitive version of du in rust

xournalpp - Xournal++ is a handwriting notetaking software with PDF annotation support. Written in C++ with GTK3, supporting Linux (e.g. Ubuntu, Debian, Arch, SUSE), macOS and Windows 10. Supports pen input from devices such as Wacom Tablets.

swaylock - Screen locker for Wayland

SimpleFox - 🦊 A Userstyle theme for Firefox minimalist and Keyboard centered.

zathura - a document viewer

mermaid - Generation of diagrams like flowcharts or sequence diagrams from text in a similar manner as markdown

eww - ElKowars wacky widgets