vimtex VS zathura

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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

zathura

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.

I am a huge fan of zathura pdf reader, I love it. I am wondering if there is a way to convert Linux terminal applications like zathura to be used in windows. Kind of like how wine works, where it doesn't emulate, but rather converts a file to be able to run on a different os. I have seen wine being used to run windows applications on Linux but never the other way around. Is there anyway for that?

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

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.

Check it out here Check out it's keybindings here

Thank you so much u/lervag, I love this product and use it daily. This and zathura and pandoc-preview.

You might want to ask this of the devs... https://github.com/pwmt/zathura

A quick look at the source code confirms this. All pages are placed in a GtkGrid, created with the below code, enforcing equal row and column heights.