Vimtex: Workaround for single-shot compilation with callback

[nbanka]

I recently switched from Latex-Box and I prefer single-shot compilation since I am sometimes working on large Beamer presentations with very long compile times. However, not having callbacks is inconvenient. Here's my workaround, which seems to have the behavior I want:

" .vimrc
let g:vimtex_latexmk_continuous = 1
let g:vimtex_latexmk_callback_hooks = ['SingleShotWithCallback']
function! SingleShotWithCallback(status)
    silent call vimtex#latexmk#stop()
endfunction

Is there a reason this couldn't be built into vimtex by e.g. always setting -pvc and calling vimtex#latexmk#stop() after compilation when single-shot behavior is desired?

[lervag]

Interesting. I never thought of this, and it actually looks like a very good idea. I'll look into it later when I get more time.

Note, though: This relies heavily on the vim clientserver, and so I should probably keep the current implementation just in case, but I could add this as an alternative in cases where it should work.

[lervag]

I've added this now. If possible, it uses your suggested method, and if not, it reverts to the old method.

[dbmrq]

This is great! It should be changed in the documentation too: https://github.com/lervag/vimtex/blob/78e062c20163cc5700cff40f27175e789de38982/doc/vimtex.txt#L664

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Edit:

This also seems wrong, I have single-shot compilations right now and the quickfix window is still opened:

https://github.com/lervag/vimtex/blob/78e062c20163cc5700cff40f27175e789de38982/doc/vimtex.txt#L1344-L1345

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Edit:

And this:

https://github.com/lervag/vimtex/blob/78e062c20163cc5700cff40f27175e789de38982/doc/vimtex.txt#L1539-L1541

[lervag]

Thanks. I tried to improve this now.

[dbmrq]

Thank you. 😄