Hi Ethan,

      Thanks for your suggestions! I definitely would like to spend time 
learning how to manipulate the plugin managers.

Haitao

On Friday, March 20, 2015 at 1:08:32 PM UTC-4, Ethan Hereth wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 7:59 PM, hcai <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Ethan,
> 
> 
> 
>        I tried several methods found on Google. I added something to the 
> folder ~/.vim/plugins as some blog suggests. I hope there is a plugin that 
> will enable me to launch Skim from Vim with a short command.
> 
> 
> 
> Haitao
> 
> 
> 
> I would use a plugin manager if I were you; there are many: Vundle, Pathogen, 
> etc.
> 
> 
> There are also many latex plugins for vim; if you really want to use a plugin 
> with vim to compose latex documents I would familiarize myself with them and 
> determine which best fits your needs.
> 
> 
> https://github.com/LaTeX-Box-Team/LaTeX-Box
> 
> https://github.com/xuhdev/vim-latex-live-preview
> 
> http://vim-latex.sourceforge.net/
> 
> http://atp-vim.sourceforge.net/
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> 
> 
> I'd say that none of these are for the weak of heart. You'll have to spend 
> some time to figure out how to used them; I suspect that most decent latex 
> plugins support launching a viewer to examine the pdf. But, as I said before, 
> you'll have to do some reading and setup to get it working how you like it.
> 
> 
> Ethan Alan
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> 
> 
> 
> On Wednesday, March 18, 2015 at 9:45:53 PM UTC-4, Ethan Hereth wrote:
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> > On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 9:36 PM, toothpik <[email protected]> wrote:
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> > On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 12:00:57PM -0700, hcai wrote:
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> >
> 
> > > Hi all, I am setting up MacVim for Latex editing and compiling. I
> 
> >
> 
> > > tried a lot of methods for launching Skim to view the compiled pdf,
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> >
> 
> > > but it hasn't been able to work. Does anyone know how to figure it
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> > > out?
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> > and you posted this to the vim_use mailing list because...
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> > skim rhymes with vim?
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> >
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> >
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> > I think it's a fair question! I've done this before, but it was via a Latex 
> > plugin. Are you using a Latex plugin hcai?
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> >
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> >
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> > It's been quite a while but I think that vim-latex supports using different 
> > pdf viewers. My .vimrc contains the following, although I haven't used the 
> > plugin in ages.
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> >
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> > let g:Tex_ViewRule_pdf='acroread'
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> >
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> >
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> > If you happen to use this plugin, or begin to use it, try :help 
> > Tex_ViewRule_format
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> >
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> > There are a number of other good latex plugins as well. But, again, it's 
> > been awhile since I've used latex. I have, however, in the past used Skim 
> > with Vim and Latex...
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> >
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> > Ethan Alan
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