lawyerger.blogg.se - Vim latex for mac

These create commands for quickly running xelatex from within VIM or MacVIM by pressing Ctrl-T and for opening the resulting PDF in Skim ( Shift-T).

Create a VIMRC file at ~/.vimrc if you don't have one already.Ĭode: " Mappings for compiling Latex fileĪutocmd FileType tex nmap T :!open -a Skim %:r.pdf.

Install MacTex which will provide xelatex, latex, etc., if you don't already have xelatex on your system.

Open Skim and go to Preferences > Sync and check "Check for file changes" and "Reload automatically".

I'm really liking the example by in the comments above, so with all credit to their answer, I'd like to expand it here including installation and setup steps.Ĭombined with ideas from: Dianaci's Vim Setup, I will outline the 5 minutes of steps it took to get my system optimal.