Re: MacVim launching Skim

On Saturday, March 21, 2015 at 12:21:16 PM UTC-4, hcai wrote:
> Hi Ethan,
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> Thanks for your suggestions! I definitely would like to spend time learning how to manipulate the plugin managers.
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> Haitao
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> 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:
> > Hi Ethan,
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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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> > > On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 12:00:57PM -0700, hcai wrote:
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> > > > Hi all, I am setting up MacVim for Latex editing and compiling. I
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> > > > tried a lot of methods for launching Skim to view the compiled pdf,
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> > > > but it hasn't been able to work. Does anyone know how to figure it
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> > > and you posted this to the vim_use mailing list because...
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> > > skim rhymes with vim?
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> > > I think it's a fair question! I've done this before, but it was via a Latex plugin. Are you using a Latex plugin hcai?
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> > > It's been quite a while but I think that vim-latex supports using different pdf viewers. My .vimrc contains the following, although I haven't used the plugin in ages.
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> > > let g:Tex_ViewRule_pdf='acroread'
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> > > If you happen to use this plugin, or begin to use it, try :help Tex_ViewRule_format
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> > > There are a number of other good latex plugins as well. But, again, it's been awhile since I've used latex. I have, however, in the past used Skim with Vim and Latex...
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This one uses pdfsync to go to the matching line <C-r>=line(',')<CR> in the pdf
Must have '\usepackage{pdfsync}' in header

map ,r :w<CR>:silent !/Applications/Skim.app/Contents/SharedSupport/displayline <C-r>=line('.')<CR> %<.pdf %<CR>

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