Vim & LaTeX

I've mapped enter as follows

 map <C-M> :make<CR>

Which allows me to run pdflatex by pressing enter within vim, with the following command:

 autocmd FileType tex setlocal makeprg=pdflatex\ '%'

Further more i'm using Snipmate with vim-snippets and neocomplcache. Other than that, i've got the following few lines in my vimrc, which should be self explanatory.

 autocmd FileType tex setlocal fileencoding=utf-8
 autocmd FileType tex setlocal spell
 autocmd FileType tex setlocal spelllang=da

Personally I like a vim-setup quite similar to gummy: I'll have 3 windows:

1. vim myfile.tex # you know what that does
2. latexmk -pvc -pdf myfile.tex # This command will recompile when stuff changes
3. evince myfile.pdf # or use whichever pdf reader you like.

This way every time I save myfile.tex or dependant files in vim, latexmk will autocompile, and evince will update my view.

Also.. many distributions have pre-installed with vim the vim-latex suite, which contains a handfull of mapped shortcuts and abbrieviations, find a list of some of them in envmacros.vim and main.vim (probably) located in or near /usr/share/vim/vimfiles/ftplugin/latex-suite/ ... Alternatively, if you run GVim, you may find most of the nifties through the menus.

I have installed latexmk (will automatically run as many times as needed to get citations and references right) and use the following in ~/.vimrc : " Map F2 to run latexmk augroup tex au BufEnter .tex map <f2> :!latexmk -pdf %<cr> au BufEnter .tex imap <f2> <esc>:!latexmk -pdf %<cr> augroup END

" Re-mapping to make movements operate on 1 screen line in wrap mode function! ScreenMovement(movement) if &wrap return "g" . a:movement else return a:movement endif endfunction onoremap <silent> <expr> j ScreenMovement("j") onoremap <silent> <expr> k ScreenMovement("k") onoremap <silent> <expr> 0 ScreenMovement("0") onoremap <silent> <expr> ^ ScreenMovement("^") onoremap <silent> <expr> $ ScreenMovement("$") nnoremap <silent> <expr> j ScreenMovement("j") nnoremap <silent> <expr> k ScreenMovement("k") nnoremap <silent> <expr> 0 ScreenMovement("0") nnoremap <silent> <expr> ^ ScreenMovement("^") nnoremap <silent> <expr> $ ScreenMovement("$") vnoremap <silent> <expr> j ScreenMovement("j")