Hi,

I want to advertise VimLatex-Suite alternative which is AutomaticLatexPlugin (ATP): http://atp-vim.sourceforge.net/ It’s main feature is compilation in background which works under Unix (Linux and MacOs), but unfortunately due to limitations of vim on Windows this feature is not working. Though since most of it is written in VimL and Python most of the features will work on Windows as well. See the feature list here:
http://atp-vim.sourceforge.vim/features.shtml

@ astine:
if you use yap it will Yank A Paragraph for whatever paragraph you happen to be in (no matter where you are in it. You can also do stuff like ya{ which Yanks A {-enclosed block (including the delimiters (‘{‘ and ‘}’)). ya( Yanks A parentheses-enclosed block.

doing yi{ or yi( is Yank Inner X-enclosed block, which yanks exactly what ya{ or ya( does except it excludes the delimiters.

Go crazy and combine it in new and interesting ways. ci” Changes Inner “-enclosed block. Super handy!

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Awesomeware. Thanks! I was trying to find how to jump to the blocks and couldn’t find it in the manual. Cheerio

@tropicflite: You could save moving to the line above by just typing P instead of p

Marc,

I must admit that meanwhile I gave up and converted myself to Emacs. I still think that vim is a great and damn elegant editor, but somehow Emacs does better job for me.

Oleksandr,

I’m seeking exactly what you describe: a VIM formatting script (e.g., for a “gwap”) that is LaTeX aware (e.g., formats text but leaves equations intact). Like you, I’m a former Emacs user. I agree that its LaTeX formatting commands are superb. Please let me know if you progress with this…

Luke,

I used VIP mode in Emacs for many, many years — modding it more and more so that it resembled VIM, until I gave up three years ago and just switched to VIM.

–Marc

I really like Vim’s modality, it makes navigation through your document and moving text around so easy (in contrast to, say, Emacs, which I have decided to give a try recently). For me, these features are way more important than all those macros to speed up the insertion of LaTeX commands and environments. This is exactly why VimLaTeX is not up to my expectations. What I find really annoying about Vim (and this is not tackled by VimLaTeX) is its paragraph formatting. I do not like to use soft line wrapping, so I always format my paragraphs manually (that is, I have “t”, but not “a” in my formatoptions and use gwap to format the paragraph I am currently in). However, Vim’s paragraph formatting is not aware of LaTeX syntax, and there seem to be no easy way to make it be (there is an option ‘paragraph’, but it is useless). I tried a few scripts that intend to rectify this, but they all suck, so I am thinking about writing my own. How do you deal with this issue? Simply insert more blank lines? Emacs’ paragraph formatting is, by the way, excellent. Why can’t it be re-implemented in Vim script?

@tropicflite: Oh wow! Thanks! This goes directly onto my vim cheat sheet!

Old thread, but I’ll put in my 2¢ anyway. Another way to select a paragraph is to use visual mode. From anywhere in the paragraph (in normal mode) type: vipy That stands for visual interior paragraph yank. Then just move the cursor to the line above where you want to put the paragraph and type: p to put it.