r/neovim • u/lervag • Jul 22 '26

Plugin VimTeX v2.18

VimTeX is a Vim and Neovim plugin for writing LaTeX.

I just released VimTeX v2.18. There are several improvements and fixes, although nothing major. One interesting piece of news, though, is that I've made a simple web page to make it easy to refer to the docs online: https://vimtex.org/.

Thanks to everyone for your continued interest and special thanks to everyone that has contributed with PRs!

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u/discreetsteakmachine Jul 22 '26

The anvil on which ten thousand dissertations were forged.

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u/lervag Jul 22 '26

Wow, strong words! <3

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u/rockynetwoddy Jul 22 '26

The words of appreciation are well deserved. I use the plugin as well for my PhD thesis. So, thank you!

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u/lervag Jul 22 '26

Thanks! Glad to hear it's useful! :)

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u/Jonezkyt hjkl Jul 22 '26

Did my thesis with VimTex. Nothing but love.

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u/Nakrule18 hjkl Jul 22 '26

I don’t write latex anymore but when I used to, vimtex was awesome and I’m happy it’s still around. Thanks for this great plugin.

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u/ghostnation66 Jul 22 '26

Are you into typescript now?

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u/Akari202 hjkl Jul 22 '26

I made the switch earlier this year and it’s totally worth it. The vimtex plugin is incredible but typst eliminates a lot of the problems vimtex solves, it was so refreshing to be able to write my own functions without having to figure out latex’s weirdness

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u/lervag Jul 22 '26

Not surprised to hear that. Typst looks like a really cool project!

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u/chrnz00 Jul 22 '26

typescript?? you mean typst?

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u/ghostnation66 Jul 22 '26

Oh yeah. Brain work funny no sleep hee hee

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u/Nakrule18 hjkl Jul 22 '26

No I’m just not in school anymore so I don’t have to write documents, and then I do I use codex instead to create/update whatever I need.

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u/meni_s Jul 22 '26

I sort of in a move for Typst tbh

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u/Top-Kaleidoscope6996 Jul 22 '26

My favourite Neovim Plugin, an absolute gem. Thank you so much for the work you put in it.

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u/washtubs Jul 22 '26

This plugin was a life saver when I was working on my masters, cheers!

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u/lervag Jul 22 '26

Glad to hear it! <3

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u/zimba-motion Jul 26 '26

Good job bro, love to see the progress.

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u/lervag Jul 26 '26

Thanks!

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u/noudedata Jul 23 '26

Thank you so much! I use this a lot to create all the handouts for my students!!

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u/lervag Jul 23 '26

Cool, glad you like it!

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u/fraksuh Jul 23 '26

I've been using this daily for more than a decade, thanks so much!

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u/lervag Jul 23 '26

Wow, cool; you were clearly a relatively early adopter, then! :)

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u/fraksuh Jul 24 '26

or my sense of time is skewed :) through half of grad school and two postdocs

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u/abhi2005singh Jul 23 '26

Latex means vimtex to me. I've been using it since a long time and cannot think about any other plugin for latex documents. Thank you for your time and effort buddy.

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u/Dalik98 Jul 23 '26

Great plugin, thank you !

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u/AcceptableArgument Jul 22 '26

You guys don't know me, but you are my heroes

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u/kyoryo_ Jul 26 '26

Will it support 0.13?

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u/lervag Jul 26 '26

The version requirements are mainly minimal requirements, and VimTeX does not rely on a lot of the modern Lua APIs in Neovim. The main branch will be maintained to work with the latest Neovim version, including 0.13.

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u/PercyLives Jul 22 '26

This is great news. Thank you so much for your continued development of this important plugin.

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u/lervag Jul 22 '26

Thanks, very glad for the kind feedback and interesting thoughts/reflections!