SVED is a Vim plugin enabling synctex synchronization support for Vim and Evince through DBus. Vim/gVim and Neovim are supported
SVED requires Neovim or Vim 8 (for asynchronous job support)
or later, Evince version 3.0 or later and the python3
command available in your PATH.
You need the Python pygobject package as well as dbus-python, which are most likely already installed in your system.
For Neovim you also need the pynvim Python package. Install with pip install pynvim or through your package manager.
Vim does not need to be compiled with python support.
Do:
git clone https://github.com/peder2tm/sved.git ~/.vim/bundle/
and create a binding to do forward synchronization:
nmap <F4> :call SVED_Sync()<CR>
Add Plug 'peterbjorgensen/sved' to your list of plugins
and tell vim-plug to install it with :PlugInstall.
Then create a binding to do forward synchronization:
nmap <F4> :call SVED_Sync()<CR>
Place both files of the plugin in ~/.vim/ftplugin/
and create a binding to do forward synchronization:
nmap <F4> :call SVED_Sync()<CR>
The plugin searches for a file called *.latexmain (like vim-latex-suite) or
*.synctex.gz in order to do forward synchronization. If your main file of the
latex project is called main.tex, you can create an empty file called
main.tex.latexmain and the script will use this to find the main pdf. Compile
the project with: pdflatex --synctex=1 main.tex
Then forward synchronization should work.
When you have a tex file open in Vim, ctrl-click in the Evince pdf and Vim will jump to the corresponding point. Vim will also jump to files you do not currently have open.
The plugin requires Vim 8 or later because it makes use of the asynchronous job feature introduced in Vim 8 to do backward synchronization. If you are using an older version of Vim, check out the version 1.0 release here on Github, which supports older versions of Vim, but does only work with gVim (not console Vim), because it needs the GTK loop of gVim to catch the bacward sunchronization signal from DBus.