VimTeX Files

Although VimTeX is not as actively developed these days, I'm still doing my best to maintain it properly. It's been a while since the last release, and there have been several updates and improvements. And there is now a web page for VimTeX: https://vimtex.org. The main benefit of this is that it makes it easy to refer to specific sections in the docs, e.g. https://vimtex.org/docs/#vimtex-requirements.

I'm still thankful to the community for your continued interest and activity, both on opening issues and contributing with fixes and improvements! 🙏🏻

Full Changelog: https://github.com/lervag/vimtex/compare/v2.17...v2.18

Features

• Commands
• Add whitelist for command star toggling (#3214)
• Make toggle_math star aware (#3213)
• Compiler
• Add TeXpresso integration (#2975, [#3262], [#3267])
• Add <localleader>lS for vimtex-compile-ss (#3234)
• Add g:vimtex_compiler_latexmk.clean_ext option (#3275)
• Allow passing a list to executable for latexmk (#3253)
• Prevent multiple clashing latexmk compilers (#3273)
• Simplify directory names before mkdir (#3225, [#3224])
• Core:
• Add g:vimtex_main_choose_first (#3270)
  • This option allows to silently pick the first candidate instead of prompting for a main file when there are multiple candidates.
• Scan first 20 lines instead of first 5 lines for tex root directives (#3277)
• Syntax:
• Add ligatures \dj and \DJ and swallow spaces for ligature conceals (#3279)
• Add macrocode as special case (#3243)
• Don't match #0 parameter (#3244)
• Extract conceal for newline out of fancy (#3237)
• Improve expl3 syntax highlighting (#3245)
• Add multi-author support for fixme package (#2503)
• Support \edef, \gdef and \xdef (#3258)
• Other
• Add Snacks picker integration for table of contents (#2826, [#3228])
• Add completer for beamer themes (#3276)
• Include second argument for environments in foldtext (#3247)
• Allow lowercase fakesections (#3271)
• Let i$ and a$ fallback to next group (#3219)
• Add support for galley PDF viewer on MacOS (#3269)

Bug Fixes

• Syntax: Fixed plural cites with conceal (#3212)
• Syntax: Allow special chars and tab chars in options (#3242)
• Text objects: Handle modified delimiters for tsf (#3232)
• Text objects: Apply separator check to (...) and <...> groups (#3259)
• Viewers: Avoid tabnext and wincmd for inverse search (#3257)
• Commands: Fix bug with toggling starred math env (#3274)
• A few other minor fixes

Documentation

• Add web page for docs (#3108)
• Improve docs on Skim settings (#3216)
• Mention version requirement for fzf-lua (#3238)
• Fix example for dic (#3249)
• Update docs for SumatraPDF (#3215)
• Correct encoding name utf8 to utf-8 (#3268)
• Other minor improvements

Acknowledgements

Again there has been several contributions from the community, and as before I would like to give a special thanks to everyone who contributes with PRs: @handcart2034 (#3213), @FlexShashlik (#3215), @elu00 (#3216), @ordinary-slim (#3225), @Skillmon (#3243, [#3244]), @attjo (#3268), @dragon-friend (#3275), @mateoxh (#3276), @Alvaro-Kothe (#3253), @tsung-ju (#2975), and @SeniorMars (#3267).