Vim

The content below this paragraph is entirely written by ChatGPT, which solved a problem I had about using vim. In one sense, it is magical that now you can solve this sort of niche tech problem with just a few prompts. On the other hand, it does take away the incentive for people to ask and answer tech questions—to ask for help and to help—on the internet. Many fear LLMs will doom the internet as a place where humans create content. I agree that is a possibility, and I will try to resist it by promising that I will not post anything generated by AI here anymore. (This paragraph is of course revised by an AI. 😁) ...

I have been using VIM (actually GVIM) to write papers with LaTeX for almost a decade now. My setup for this has not changed for most of the time. One advantage of using VIM is that once you have learned it, you can expect to use it for a life time. That been said, a decade seems to be a good time to have an update. So here’s my new VIM setup for LaTeX in 2021 and perhaps for the next decade. ...