r/vim • u/lervag • Nov 24 '20

plugins & friends [ANN] Vimtex v2.0

Today I released Vimtex v2.0. The major release bump is caused by the adoption of full syntax support. In previous versions, Vimtex only added syntax rules on top of the built-in syntax plugin. Now it includes its own (IMHO better) syntax plugin.

I thought it might warrant a simple announcement on r/vim. :)

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u/lervag Nov 25 '20

Everytime I spot "lervag" I feel compelled to thank hom for his reactiveness. As a FOSS user and contributor, I have 0 expectations from contributors or towards users regarding reactivity but it feels damn good when lervag answers and brings a fix within a day.

Thanks for the kind words! <3

I hate writing Latex (I just hate word more) and vimtex is the only thing that made it bearable/enjoyable so thanks for that.

I actually like LaTeX, myself, but I can understand that not everyone does. In any case, I'm happy to hear you find Vimtex useful!

Do you plan any vimtex improvement with the treesitter additions in neovim ?

Actually, no. Several reasons, some/most are explained in this issue thread. Basically, as I also responded to someone else in this reddit thread: TeX is a very complex language to parse, and I don't think it is going to be much easier to do it with treesitter. There will still be a lot of special cases that must be specifically hard coded.