vimtex VS zathura

Compare vimtex vs zathura and see what are their differences.

vimtex

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

zathura

a document viewer (by pwmt)
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vimtex zathura
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5,076 1,672
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8.9 8.8
8 days ago 19 days ago
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MIT License zlib License
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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.
  • 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.

zathura

Posts with mentions or reviews of zathura. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-02-23.
  • my first rice! :)
    12 projects | /r/bspwm | 23 Feb 2023
    zathura
  • Vim + LaTeX
    4 projects | /r/vim | 11 Feb 2023
    Basically, you add vimtex as a plugin to vim, you configure it in your .vimrc file and specify things like which PDF viewer you want to use to view the output. In both the blog post and the github repo they use the PDF viewer zathura.
  • [BSPWM] My first rice!
    15 projects | /r/linuxmasterrace | 31 Oct 2022
    OS: Arch Linux WM: Bspwm Compositor: Picom Launcher/Powermenu: Rofi Status Bar: Polybar Terminal: Alacritty Shell: Zsh Editor: Neovim Notification: Dunst File Manager: Lf PDF Viewer: Zathura Text fonts: JetBrains Mono Nerd Font DOTFILES: here
  • Can I read PDF on neovim buffer?
    3 projects | /r/neovim | 14 Jul 2022
    You can use pdftotext to convert a pdf to text and then read that in vim. However it would probably be easier to just use a pdf reader that supports keyboard bindings, like zathura.
  • I need a simple pdf editor
    2 projects | /r/NoteTaking | 18 Jan 2022
    Check it out here Check out it's keybindings here
  • VimTeX v2.5
    3 projects | /r/vim | 1 Jun 2021
    Thank you so much u/lervag, I love this product and use it daily. This and zathura and pandoc-preview.
  • [bspwm] books
    11 projects | /r/unixporn | 26 Dec 2020
    epub viewer: zathura

What are some alternatives?

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

coc-texlab - TexLab extension for coc.nvim

texlab - An implementation of the Language Server Protocol for LaTeX

tex-conceal.vim

sioyek - Sioyek is a PDF viewer with a focus on textbooks and research papers

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.

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

pandoc-preview.vim - A vim plugin that provides the function to automatically preview a given pandoc file in your favorite pdf viewer

homebrew-zathura - Homebrew formulae to build Zathura on Mac OS X

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

tree-sitter-markdown - Markdown grammar for tree-sitter

tree-sitter-markdown - Markdown grammar for tree-sitter

vim-sandwich - Set of operators and textobjects to search/select/edit sandwiched texts.