Synctex-searches work just fine by installing
zathura and all the dependencies from the Arch official repository (
libmupdf can be skipped) as long as we set the
vimtex-clientserver (please refer to the
first related configuration file below) which is specifically for
vimtex-synctex-inverse-search.
I use [1] vimtex, a vim plugin that provides support for writing and compiling LaTeX documents and [2] zathura as the document viewer.
In the beginning, I was determined to stick to [3] MuPDF as the PDF viewer due to its fast and complete features despite being small and lightweight but I kept encountering unpleasant experiences while compiling documents where it always froze the screen of my laptop when I closed the viewer.
$print_type = 'pdf';
$pdf_mode = 1;
$bibtex_use = 2;
push @generated_exts, "cb";
push @generated_exts, "cb2";
push @generated_exts, "spl";
push @generated_exts, "nav";
push @generated_exts, "snm";
push @generated_exts, "tdo";
push @generated_exts, "nmo";
push @generated_exts, "brf";
push @generated_exts, "nlg";
push @generated_exts, "nlo";
push @generated_exts, "nls";
push @generated_exts, "synctex.gz";
push @generated_exts, "tex.latexmain";
push @generated_exts, "run.xml";
$latex = 'latex --src-specials %O %S';
#$pdflatex = 'pdflatex -file-line-error -synctex=1 -interaction=nonstopmode -shell-escape %O %S';
$pdflatex = 'xelatex -file-line-error -synctex=1 -interaction=nonstopmode -shell-escape %S %O -verbose';
# If zero, check for a previously running previewer on the same file and update it. If nonzero, always start a new previewer.
$new_viewer_always = 0;
# How to make the PDF viewer update its display when the PDF file changes. See the man page for a description of each method.
$pdf_update_method = 2;
# When PDF update method 2 is used, the number of the Unix signal to send
$pdf_update_signal = 'SIGHUP';
add_cus_dep('nlo', 'nls', 0, 'nlo2nls');
sub nlo2nls {
system("makeindex $_[0].nlo -s nomencl.ist -o $_[0].nls -t $_[0].nlg" );
}
# vim: ft=perl
