vimtex VS LuaSnip

Compare vimtex vs LuaSnip and see what are their differences.

vimtex

VimTeX: A modern Vim and neovim filetype plugin for LaTeX files. (by lervag)

LuaSnip

Snippet Engine for Neovim written in Lua. (by L3MON4D3)
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vimtex LuaSnip
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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.
  • VimTeX 2.14
    1 project | /r/neovim | 18 Jul 2023
    The full changelog is here: https://github.com/lervag/vimtex/releases/tag/v2.14.
  • setting up vimtex in nvchad
    1 project | /r/neovim | 20 Jun 2023
    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.
  • 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.
  • Note Taking Applications, Beyond the Doc
    1 project | /r/berkeley | 31 May 2023
    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 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.
  • Is there a way to render advanced latex on Obsidian?
    1 project | /r/ObsidianMD | 4 May 2023
    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.
  • [Latex] NVIM, VIM-TEX - Latexrun n'est pas exécutable!
    1 project | /r/enfrancais | 19 Apr 2023
  • 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 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

LuaSnip

Posts with mentions or reviews of LuaSnip. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-08-16.

What are some alternatives?

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

coc-texlab - TexLab extension for coc.nvim

vim-vsnip - Snippet plugin for vim/nvim that supports LSP/VSCode's snippet format.

texlab - An implementation of the Language Server Protocol for LaTeX

ultisnips - UltiSnips - The ultimate snippet solution for Vim. Send pull requests to SirVer/ultisnips!

tex-conceal.vim

friendly-snippets - Set of preconfigured snippets for different languages.

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.

nvim-snippy - Snippet plugin for Neovim written in Lua

zathura - a document viewer

snippets.nvim

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

nvim-cmp - A completion plugin for neovim coded in Lua.