not-so-short-introduction-to-context VS vimtex

I'm been using ConTeXt on and off for a bit, and I haven't been able to access the ConTeXt wiki at https://wiki.contextgarden.net/

Take a look at ConTeXt, which does away with the packages approach of LaTeX and all the complexity. It is pretty mature (first came out in 91) and the underlying LuaTeX engine is even being used by some LaTeX distributions. It is pretty programmable as you can call Lua from within it. Here are some resources if you are interested: A not so short introduction to ConTeXt

Note that this is ConTeXt, not LaTeX, but the two are quite similar on a day-to-day basis. ConTeXt is a bit less well-known, but the documentation is quite decent. If you're interested, I can recommend this and this and the ConTeXt wiki here.

The full changelog is here: https://github.com/lervag/vimtex/releases/tag/v2.14.

Feel free to open an issue on GitHub. Please take care to fill in the issue template; it's meant to help you provide useful details that make it easier for me to give a useful answer.

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.

Definitely get vimtex and set it up so you can view the compiled document in one window, and your notes in the other. Get used to vim a bit with some vim tutorial (there are a bunch out there), and have latex shortcuts you use in all your documents.

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.

Obsidian is limited by its use of markdown files. You can use Overleaf, Vimtex, or LaTeX workshop on VS Code to render your tex documents.

Some language-specific plugins like vimtex also include their own text objects.

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.

Absolutely VimTeX