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# Ingredients
Before starting we will need several components to achieve this lofty goal of
painlessly writing LaTeX documents with the best text editor.
painlessly writing LaTeX documents with the best text editor. Let us start by
listing them; we will shortly see the installation and configuration procedure:
* A configurable text editor to be able to write the document:
[Neovim](https://neovim.io). For that we will also need some plugins to
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# Setting Neovim up
Now that we have prepared everything, we need to setup `Neovim` to be up to the
task.
We will assume a blank configuration and starts from scratch.
Now that we have prepared everything, we need to setup `Neovim`.
We will assume a blank configuration and start from scratch.
I got inspired by a [blogpost about snippets in
Neovim](https://pcoves.gitlab.io/en/blog/nvim-snippets/#installation) and used
`NVIM_APPNAME` environment variables for testing this configuration. Please let
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- Show table of content navigation: `,lt`.
* Using latex-specific text objects such as `$` for math or `e` for environment
(defined by `\begin{…}` and `\end{…}`).
- Insert command/environment : `<F6>/<F7>` (in normal and visual mode; these are not very accessible, but can be remapped).
- Insert command/environment : `<F6>/<F7>` (in normal and visual mode; these are
not very accessible, but can be remapped).
- Support for [TeX
directives](https://github.com/lervag/vimtex/blob/master/doc/vimtex.txt#L481-L504)
(which are common with others LaTeX' IDEs), such as
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lspconfig.texlab.setup {}
```
Easy, innit? Well, that's all and good, we can now see errors and warnings
decorating the file like Christmas decorations, but we can not use any of the LSP
Easy, innit? Well, that's well and good, we can now see errors and warnings
decorating the file like a Christmas tree, but we can not use any of the LSP
tools such as obtaining information on a bibliography key, or rename a macro.
However, let us just remark that texlab is a pretty minimal LSP server, and
does not implement the myriads of possible functionalities.
Henceforth, I simply copy-pasted the default example from the [nvim-lspconfig
Readme](https://github.com/neovim/nvim-lspconfig), tried the shortcuts one by
one, and removed these which raised an error for “not implemented
one, and removed those which raised an error for “not implemented
functionality” 🤡:
```lua
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`vim-latex`, I was using [nvim-remote](https://github.com/mhinz/neovim-remote)
which is a wrapper for `nvim --listen` with a lot of constraints, while the most
annoying one is that if I used reverse search from a detached[^1] zathura window
without starting `nvr` first… then it is spawns the process which I cannot
recover. Which usually happens when I'm in a rush to fix something quickly.
without starting `nvr` first… then it spawns the process which I cannot recover.
Which usually happens when I'm in a rush to fix something quickly.
Fortunately, this is a thing of the past as it is possible to directly send a
directive to `vimtex` upon which it will look for the corresponding buffer and
then open the file at the corresponding location while following its state
open the file at the corresponding location while following its state
(which can be viewed with `,li`).
To do so, the
[documentation](https://github.com/lervag/vimtex/blob/master/doc/vimtex.txt#L5985-L6033)