Automatic LaTeX compile and XDVI refresh

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created September 16, 2008 · complexity basic · version 7.0

This tip is for users of latex-suite. It lets latex-suite compile the file automatically when the buffer is saved and refreshes the xdvi viewer immediately. This is particularly useful when you have a wide-screen monitor with Vim on the left and xdvi on the right.

Just put the following two lines in your vimrc. The first simply calls LaTeX-Compile at ":w", and the second lets xdvi redraw the screen.

au BufWritePost *.tex silent call Tex_CompileLatex()
au BufWritePost *.tex silent !pkill -USR1 xdvi.bin

The behaviour is taken from Eclipse's "incremental build" feature and can be adapted to other languages than latex as well.

CommentsEdit

You should replace the Tex_CompileLatex() command with Tex_RunLaTeX() if you are using *tex.latexmain files.

There is AutomaticLaTeXPlugin (ATP) which is another versatile Latex plugin for vim. It implements background compilation and also a progress bar (see this video) (this works under Linux and MacOS, but not under Windows). Its web page is here ATP, and here is its feature list.