With the Vim-$\rm \LaTeX$ plugin, it's possible to edit $\rm \LaTeX$ equations with Vim quickly without making syntax errors. (e.g. undefined control sequence caused by mismatched braces '{}')
For the sample files, please click the above "Youtube" button. Why use Vim? Please refer to my post on Vim.
For a quick startup guide, see the official tutorial. If you've learnt those keyboard mappings, here's a quick review of some commands. For detailed list of all keyboard shortcuts and customizations (e.g. custom compile rule: use pdflatex instead of latex and dvipdfm), you can refer to the user manual.
There're many blog entries about how to install $\rm \LaTeX$ on Vim/GVim on UNIX/Linux and M$. Searching "vim latex" gives you millions of search results. Summarizing the articles, the three major components are:
- Editor
- Vim (found on almost every distribution of *nix)
- GVim (on GUI of any platform)
- $\rm \LaTeX$
- $\rm \TeX \text{Live}$ (found in package manager on *nix)
- $\text{Mik}\rm \TeX$ (have a $\rm \LaTeX$ package manager)
- Vim plugin for writing $\rm \LaTeX$: Latex-Suite
For *nix, you may find some GUI tools for installing packages. (especially in some popular distributions)
You can also type the install commands for these packages on the terminal. For example:
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Ubuntu
# Also include `vim-gnome' if you'd like to install GVim. $ sudo apt get install vim-gnome vim-latexsuite texlive
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Fedora
# Also include `vim-X11' if you'd like to install GVim. [root@localhost]# yum install vim-latex latex
For M$, the installation procedures for GVim (portable), Vim-$\rm \LaTeX$ and $\text{Mik}\rm \TeX$ (portable) are as followed:
- Go to the official websites of GVim and $\text{Mik}\rm \TeX$ (or equivalent packages) and download the packages.
- Put $\text{Mik}\rm \TeX$ portable and GVim portable to any folder you like
- e.g.
C:\Temp - DON'T put them under
C:\Program Files
- e.g.
- Download Vim-$\rm \LaTeX$ from SourceForge
- Follow the steps here
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