Texpad VS vimtex

Texpad

LaTeX editor for macOS, macOS, iOS, iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch, with syntax highlighting, multi-file support and integrated PDF

vimtex

vimtex is a Vim plugin that provides support for writing LaTeX documents.

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vimtex

Writing

56 56%

Writing

44% 44

Project Management

37 37%

Project Management

63% 63

Writing Tools

59 59%

Writing Tools

41% 41

Development

46 46%

Development

54% 54

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vimtex mentions (51)

My uses for vimwiki have dried up... and it makes me a little sad
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... Source: 11 months ago
Note Taking Applications, Beyond the Doc
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. Source: 11 months ago
I like Tabasco.
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... Source: 12 months ago
Is there a way to render advanced latex on Obsidian?
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. Source: 12 months ago
What are all the accepted "inner" motion arguments?
Some language-specific plugins like vimtex also include their own text objects. Source: about 1 year ago