OS X LLPStartPreview Bugging Vim

[f3ss1]

Greetings.

When I try to compile my .tex document I get Vim frozen so that nothing happens and I have to force quit it.

The steps I have made from the very beginning:

1. Installed Python 3.7.3 from the official website
2. Installed MacVim from a .dwg file from GitHub
3. Manually put latexlivepreview.vim into a manually created .vim folder at "Users"
4. Created .vimrc and put let g:livepreview_previewer = 'open -a Preview' into it as I want my text to be opened in native Preview
5. Created a "test.tex" document via vim and put the following text into it:

\documentclass{article}

\begin{document}

testing testing testing

\end{document}

6. Prayed
7. Nothing happened.

The MacVim is 8.1, the settings are here:

+acl -farsi +mouse_sgr -tag_any_white +arabic +file_in_path -mouse_sysmouse -tcl +autocmd +find_in_path +mouse_urxvt +termguicolors +autochdir +float +mouse_xterm +terminal -autoservername +folding +multi_byte +terminfo +balloon_eval -footer +multi_lang +termresponse +balloon_eval_term +fork() -mzscheme +textobjects +browse +fullscreen +netbeans_intg +textprop ++builtin_terms -gettext +num64 +timers +byte_offset -hangul_input +odbeditor +title +channel +iconv +packages +toolbar +cindent +insert_expand +path_extra +transparency +clientserver +job +perl/dyn +user_commands +clipboard +jumplist +persistent_undo +vartabs +cmdline_compl +keymap +postscript +vertsplit +cmdline_hist +lambda +printer +virtualedit +cmdline_info +langmap +profile +visual +comments +libcall +python/dyn +visualextra +conceal +linebreak +python3/dyn +viminfo +cryptv +lispindent +quickfix +vreplace +cscope +listcmds +reltime +wildignore +cursorbind +localmap +rightleft +wildmenu

Those are not all of them but as far as I see those are enough.

Please help as I'm trying to set vim and tex together for 4 days now :c

[xuhdev]

Is your Vim built with your latest Python 3.7? You can see by running

:py3 print(sys.version)

[f3ss1]

Yeap it is 3.7.3 (Clang 10.0.1)

[f3ss1]

The steps I wrote above are actually the only steps I've made. Probably I have missed something. In that case could you please tell me what exactly?

[David-Fu]

I've got the same problem with Mac Mojave. When using the command :LLPStartPreview the MacVim just keep processing and never gives the result... I thought that the using it for the first time may need more time to compile and just left it for a night and, unfortunately, nothing happens. I suggest that the bib document has to be created and using in the .tex file, would this be the problem. I also have tried to create a reference.bib and still doesn't work...

[xuhdev]

Does Skim work for you? I just want to confirm this is only reproduciable for Preview.

[David-Fu]

Unfortunately, I have the same problem while using skim. I guess that It may not be the matter of pdfviewer.

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[ghyatzo]

Are there any updates on this? I've run into the same issue as @David-Fu. The windows is just stuck and LLPStartPreview never returns anything. I actually have to hard kill the terminal window otherwise is frozen.

[qaisern]

I also have the same issue