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A VimTeX Plugin Guide | Vim and LaTeX Series Part 4 | ejmastnak

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This article covers the excellent VimTeX plugin, a modular Vim and Neovim plugin with heaps of useful features for writing LaTeX files. The article was last modified on 20 July 2025. Background knowledge: this article will make regular references to the ftplugin and plugin directories, which we will use to implement LaTeX-specific Vim configuration. To get the most out of this article, you should understand the purpose of these directories. In case you are just dropping in now and words like “plugin”, “ftplugin”, and “runtimepath” sound unfamiliar, consider first reading through the previous article in this series, which covers what you need to know. You might also want to skim over the suggested prerequisite knowledge for reading this series. You could either: Given VimTeX’s superb documentation, what is the point of this guide? My reasoning is that many new users—I am often guilty of this too—quickly become overwhelmed when reading extensive plain-text documentation as a means of lea

A VimTeX Plugin Guide | Vim and LaTeX Series Part 4 | ejmastnak Getting started with the VimTeX plugin (This is part four in a seven-part series on efficiently writing LaTeX documents.) « Previous Series homepage Next » This article covers the excellent VimTeX plugin , a modular Vim and Neovim plugin with heaps of useful features for writing LaTeX files. The article was last modified on 22 December 2025. Contents of this article Background knowledge: this article will make regular references to the ftplugin and plugin directories, which we will use to implement LaTeX-specific Vim configuration

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