latex.nvim

(very) minimal, opinionated neovim filetype plugin for (La)TeX and Markdown, written in Lua. There is no reason to prefer this plugin to VimTeX.

Installation

-- packer.nvim
use 'ryleelyman/latex.nvim'

Requirements

To use imaps, which are based on treesitter, you must have treesitter parsers for the relevant filetype installed. For example, latex for .tex files and markdown and markdown_inline for .md files.

Configuration

To use latex.nvim you need to put

require('latex').setup()

somewhere in your config. This is equivalent to the following default configuration.

require('latex').setup{
  conceals = {
    enabled = {
      "greek",
      "math",
      "script",
      "delim",
      "font"
    },
    add = {}
  },
  imaps = {
    enabled = true,
    add = {},
    default_leader = "`"
  },
  surrounds = {
    enabled = false,
    command = "c",
    environment = "e",
  },
}

See below for more about configuring imaps.

Features

Imaps

Currently latex.nvim provides user-configurable, context-aware insert-mode mappings in .tex and .md files. The mappings are directly inspired by VimTeX.

The imaps.add table in setup() expects one of the following formats

{
  ["rhs"] = "lhs",
  -- the above is equivalent to
  ["rhs"] = {
    lhs = "lhs",
    leader = nil, -- will be replaced by default_leader
    wrap_char = false,
    context = nil -- will be replaced by one of require('latex').imaps.tex_math_mode or require('latex').imaps.markdown_math_mode
  }
}

Assuming a default_leader of "`", typing "`lhs" while within math mode (e.g. between a pair of $ or a \[, \] block in a .tex file, or between a pair of $$ in a .md file) will yield an output of "rhs".

wrap_char

A mapping with wrap_char = true, for example the default mapping

{
  ["\\mathbb"] = {
    lhs = "B",
    leader = "#",
    wrap_char = true
  }
 }

yields, after inputting "#BZ" in math mode, the output "\mathbb{Z}".

Conceals

Almost all of the low-hanging fruit is done as far as concealing; hard things like using tree-sitter for \'e to é are not a priority.

You can disable conceals on a per-file basis by redefining conceals.enabled in the setup function.

Currently the conceals provided are:

• Greek: things like \sigma to σ
• Math: things like \amalg to ⨿
• Script: superscripts and subscripts
• Delim: things like \left and many instances of curly braces.
• Font: things like \mathbb{Z} to ℤ

You can add your own concealed commands to the conceals.add table in the following format

add = {
  ["colon"] = ":"
}

The key should be the command name with the leading backslash stripped, and the value should be the single-character conceal to replace that command with. The add table is for concealing generic_command elements. Unlike most other conceals, these are not sensitive to the presence or absence of math mode.

Surrounds

Requires nvim-surround. Provides add, change and delete for commands and environments. With default settings for nvim-surround, these are mapped to, for example, csc for change surrounding command and dse for delete surrounding environment.

To enable, set surrounds.enabled to true.

Non-features

• compilation, forward/backward search, completion, linting—use texlab
• highlighting—use treesitter