Re: MacVim launching Skim

Hi Ethan,

Thanks for your suggestions! I definitely would like to spend time learning how to manipulate the plugin managers.

Haitao

On Friday, March 20, 2015 at 1:08:32 PM UTC-4, Ethan Hereth wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 7:59 PM, hcai <hcai...@gmail.com> wrote:
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>        I tried several methods found on Google. I added something to the folder ~/.vim/plugins as some blog suggests. I hope there is a plugin that will enable me to launch Skim from Vim with a short command.
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> I would use a plugin manager if I were you; there are many: Vundle, Pathogen, etc.
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> There are also many latex plugins for vim; if you really want to use a plugin with vim to compose latex documents I would familiarize myself with them and determine which best fits your needs.
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> https://github.com/LaTeX-Box-Team/LaTeX-Box
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> https://github.com/xuhdev/vim-latex-live-preview
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> http://vim-latex.sourceforge.net/
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> http://atp-vim.sourceforge.net/
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> I'd say that none of these are for the weak of heart. You'll have to spend some time to figure out how to used them; I suspect that most decent latex plugins support launching a viewer to examine the pdf. But, as I said before, you'll have to do some reading and setup to get it working how you like it.
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> On Wednesday, March 18, 2015 at 9:45:53 PM UTC-4, Ethan Hereth wrote:
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> > On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 9:36 PM, toothpik <toot...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > > Hi all, I am setting up MacVim for Latex editing and compiling. I
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