The agpy wiki page has instructions that are probably more clear; I don't really like the colorscheme / layout of this blog.
You can use synctex to make an editor and viewer work together, but it is far from easy and far harder than it should be. Forward-search is pretty easy, but the latex-suite
\ls only works intermittently and is not easily customizable.I had to do the following:
For VIM->Skim.app (Skim.app is necessary for any of this to work), add these commands to .vimrc:
" Activate skim
map ,v :w<CR>:silent !/Applications/Skim.app/Contents/SharedSupport/displayline -r <C-r>=line('.')<CR> %<.pdf %<CR><CR>
map ,p :w<CR>:silent !pdflatex -synctex=1 --interaction=nonstopmode %:p <CR>:silent !/Applications/Skim.app/Contents/SharedSupport/displayline -r <C-r>=line('.')<CR> %<.pdf %<CR><CR>
map ,m :w<CR>:silent !make <CR>:silent !/Applications/Skim.app/Contents/SharedSupport/displayline -r <C-r>=line('.')<CR> %<.pdf %<CR><CR>
" Reactivate VIM
map ,r :w<CR>:silent !/Applications/Skim.app/Contents/SharedSupport/displayline -r <C-r>=line('.')<CR> %<.pdf %<CR>:silent !osascript -e "tell application \"MacVim\" to activate" <CR><CR>
map ,t :w<CR>:silent !pdflatex -synctex=1 --interaction=nonstopmode %:p <CR>:silent !/Applications/Skim.app/Contents/SharedSupport/displayline -r <C-r>=line('.')<CR> %<.pdf %<CR>:silent !osascript -e "tell application \"MacVim\" to activate" <CR><CR>
The
,m command will reload the file and put your cursor where the text is. ,t will return VIM to the front afterwards.Going the other way (reverse-search / inverse-search) was MUCH more challenging. The code that does this is on agpy . Reproduced here for posterity (I hope to update the agpy version to deal with tabs). [A few hours later, I HAVE replaced the code. Below are the old applescript version, then the new, vim-based version
#!/bin/bash
file="$1"
line="$2"
[ "${file:0:1}" == "/" ] || file="${PWD}/$file"
# Use Applescript to activate VIM, find file, and load it
# the 'delay' command is needed to prevent command/control/shift from sticking when this
# is activated (e.g., from Skim, where the command is command-shift-click)
#
# key code 53 is "escape" to escape to command mode in VIM
exec osascript \
-e "delay 0.2" \
-e "tell application \"MacVim\" to activate" \
-e "tell application \"System Events\"" \
-e " tell process \"MacVim\"" \
-e " key code 53 "\
-e " keystroke \":set hidden\" & return " \
-e " keystroke \":if bufexists(bufname('$file'))\" & return " \
-e " keystroke \":exe \\\":buffer \\\" . bufnr(bufname('$file'))\" & return " \
-e " keystroke \":else \" & return " \
-e " keystroke \":echo \\\"Could not load file\\\" \" & return " \
-e " keystroke \":endif\" & return " \
-e " keystroke \":$line\" & return " \
-e " end tell" \
-e "end tell"
New code: download link
#!/bin/bash
# Install directions:
# Put this file somewhere in your path and make it executable
# To set up in Skim, go to Preferences:Sync
# Change Preset: to Custom
# Change Command: to macvim-load-line
# Change Arguments: to "%file" %line
file="$1"
line="$2"
debug="$3"
echo file: $file
echo line: $line
echo debug: $debug
for server in `mvim --serverlist`
do
foundfile=`mvim --servername $server --remote-expr "WhichTab('$file')"`
if [[ $foundfile > 0 ]]
then
mvim --servername $server --remote-expr "foreground()"
if [[ $debug ]] ; then echo mvim --servername $server --remote-send ":exec \"tabnext $foundfile\""; fi
mvim --servername $server --remote-send ":exec \"tabnext $foundfile\""
if [[ $debug ]] ; then echo mvim --servername $server --remote-send ":$line"; fi
mvim --servername $server --remote-send ":$line"
fi
done
Save that as an executable in your default path (e.g.,
/usr/local/bin/macvim-load-line) and open Skim.app, go to Preferences:Sync and make the command look like this:
You need to have mvim on your path. mvim comes with MacVim.app, but is NOT installed by default. Install it by doing something like:
cp /Users/adam/Downloads/MacVim-7_3-53/mvim /usr/local/bin/mvim You'll also need to install WhichTab.vim in your
~/.vim/plugins/ directory. It's available here ( download link ). Here's the source:function! WhichTab(filename)
" Try to determine whether file is open in any tab.
" Return number of tab it's open in
let buffername = bufname(a:filename)
if buffername == ""
return 0
endif
let buffernumber = bufnr(buffername)
" tabdo will loop through pages and leave you on the last one;
" this is to make sure we don't leave the current page
let currenttab = tabpagenr()
let tab_arr = []
tabdo let tab_arr += tabpagebuflist()
" return to current page
exec "tabnext ".currenttab
" Start checking tab numbers for matches
let i = 0
for tnum in tab_arr
let i += 1
echo "tnum: ".tnum." buff: ".buffernumber." i: ".i
if tnum == buffernumber
return i
endif
endfor
endfunction
function! WhichWindow(filename)
" Try to determine whether the file is open in any GVIM *window*
let serverlist = split(serverlist(),"\n")
"let currentserver = ????
for server in serverlist
let remotetabnum = remote_expr(server,
\"WhichTab('".a:filename."')")
if remotetabnum != 0
return server
endif
endfor
endfunction
