Vim Tricks (for academics)
This is probably the best essay on the subject: https://medium.com/@mkozlows/why-atom-cant-replace-vim-433852f4b4d1
Also, this too: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1218390/what-is-your-most-productive-shortcut-with-vim/1220118#1220118
Text objects are what make Vim > Emacs in my opinion (and I do like Emacs — a lot). This article does a terrific job introducing them.
There are two options: LaTeX-Box and vimtex. I went with vimtex because it's newer. There's nice features like scanning of *.bib files and then autocompleting BibTeX citation keys:
Vimtex likes folding -- you can open folds with zo and close them with zc. You can also move efficiently between sections with ]] (forward) and [[.
Quickly changing environments: cse for change surronding environment.
Commands are run through the local leader, which is by default \. For example, \lt opens the table of contents.
My advisor uses a notation like \vb{comment} to LaTeX files. This is defined as:
\newcommand{\vb}[1]{{\it \color{blue} #1}}
The following code highlights our two colors in Vim:
" |- LaTeX comment hacks
function! FindLaTeXComments()
highlight CommentGC ctermfg=red
highlight CommentVB ctermfg=blue
call matchadd('CommentGC', '\\gc{\_[^}]*}')
call matchadd('CommentVB', '\\vb{\_[^}]*}')
endfunction
command! GC call FindLaTeXComments()
nnoremap <leader>gc :GC<cr>
