Cannot call zathura from vimtex about vimtex HOT 4 CLOSED

I use zathura as vimtex viewer, but zathura won't open while press '\lv'.

Since you are on MacOS, you could also use Skim. It is known to work well.

According to other issues, I'd tried to run

zathura  -x "/opt/homebrew/Cellar/neovim/0.9.0/bin/nvim --headless -c \"VimtexInverseSearch %{line} '%{input}'\"" --synctex-forward 4:14:'/Users/ccandle/Coding/LaTeX/minimal/minimal.tex' 'build/minimal.pdf'&

and it returned

error: Could not connect to session bus: Could not connect: No such file or directory
error: Got no usable data from SyncTeX or D-Bus failed in some way.

[1]  + 19760 exit 255   zathura -x  --synctex-forward  'build/main.pdf'

Please read :help vimtex-view-zathura, then :help vimtex-faq-zathura-macos. If that section can not help you, then I don't have any further ideas. Sorry!

nvim calls 'plugins.vim' and the vimtex part is …

let g:tex_flavor = 'latex'
let g:vimtex_view_method = 'zathura'
let g:vimtex_quickfix_mode = 0
let g:vimtex_quickfix_ignore_filters = [
      \ 'Underfull',
      \ 'Overfull'
      \ ]
let g:vimtex_compiler_latexmk_engines = {'_' : '-xelatex'}
let g:vimtex_compiler_latexmk = {
      \ 'build_dir': 'build',
      \ 'callback' : 1,
      \ 'continuous' : 1,
      \ 'executable' : 'latexmk',
      \ 'hooks' : [],
      \ 'options' : [
      \   '-verbose',
      \   '-file-line-error',
      \   '-shell-escape',
      \   '-synctex=1',
      \   '-interaction=nonstopmode',
      \ ],
      \}
let g:maplocalleader=' '
let g:view_enable=1
let g:view_automatic=1
let g:vimtex_texcount_custom_arg = '-ch -total'

Comments:

• You don't need let g:tex_flavor - remove it.
• VimTeX options all start with g:vimtex_.
• maplocalleader is not really a VimTeX option, it is a Vim/Neovim specific thing. You should not have that as part of the VimTeX config.
• You can simplify things.

Here's a simplified version:

let g:maplocalleader=' '

let g:vimtex_view_method = 'zathura'
let g:vimtex_quickfix_mode = 0
let g:vimtex_quickfix_ignore_filters = [
      \ 'Underfull',
      \ 'Overfull'
      \ ]
let g:vimtex_compiler_latexmk_engines = {'_' : '-xelatex'}
let g:vimtex_compiler_latexmk = {
      \ 'build_dir': 'build',
      \ 'options' : [
      \   '-verbose',
      \   '-file-line-error',
      \   '-shell-escape',
      \   '-synctex=1',
      \   '-interaction=nonstopmode',
      \ ],
      \}
let g:vimtex_texcount_custom_arg = '-ch -total'

from vimtex.

By the way, it's nothing todo with the build_dir. Things will go the same if I set 'build_dir': ''.

from vimtex.

Since you are on MacOS, you could also use Skim. It is known to work well.

Skim works well, but I prefer zathura. Luckily zathura works again after reinstalling the nvim, vimtex and zathura, using the exact same configuration. I guess it's something about file permissions and zathura settings.

Comments:

• You don't need let g:tex_flavor - remove it.
• VimTeX options all start with g:vimtex_.
• maplocalleader is not really a VimTeX option, it is a Vim/Neovim specific thing. You should not have that as part of the VimTeX config.
• You can simplify things.

Here's a simplified version:

...

Thanks for your guiding, it's really helpful for me as a beginner. I tried modifying other people's tutorials online, which maybe messed up vimtex.

from vimtex.

Great, glad to hear it works now! I'll close the issue then.

from vimtex.