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This page is about editing ConTeXt source in Vim, gVim, MacVim, NeoVim, and other Vim clones. Some of The page describes the described features are scripts available only in with Vim v8.0.0047 or later: they will be noted below.  == A note on filetype detection == TeX (Plain TeX)If you are using an older Vim, LaTex and ConTeXt all use the <tt>.tex</tt> extension for files, which makes it difficult to detect you may copy the filetype based on the extension. From Vim 7 onwards, scripts from Vim does some intelligent checking to see it the file is <tt>plaintex</tt> or <tt>latex</tt> or <tt>context</tt>.'s distribution  If the first line of a <tt>*.tex</tt> file has the form %&<format>then this determines the file type(https: <tt>plaintex</tt> (for Plain TeX), <tt>context</tt> (forConTeXt), or <tt>tex</tt> (for LaTeX)github. Otherwise, the file is searched for keywords tochoose <tt>context<com/tt> or <tt>tex<vim/tt>. If no keywords are found, it defaults to <tt>plaintex</tt>.You can change the default by defining the variable <tt>g:tex_flavor</tt> to the format(not the file typevim) you use most. Use one of these: let g:tex_flavor = "plain" let g:tex_flavor = "context" let g:tex_flavor = "latex"Currently no other formats are recognized. * If you use ConTeXt most of the time, but occasionally use LaTeX or Plain TeX, you can add the following to your <tt>.vimrc</tt> let g:tex_flavor = "context"* If you only use ConTeXt, you can add under the following lines to <tt>filetype.vimruntime</tt>: " ConTeXt augroup filetypedetect au! BufRead,BufNewFile *.tex setfiletype context augroup ENDso the next time you open a <tt>*directory.tex</tt> fileEverything should work, Vim will always recognize it as a ConTeXt document. == A note on spell checking ==atleast with Vim 7 or later has a built-in spell checker. To enable it or disable it, use: :set spellor :set nospellrespectively.To set the language to be used for spell checking, set the <tt>spelllang</tt> option accordingly. For example: :set spelllang=en_usUse lowercase letters (<tt>en_us</tt>, not <tt>en_US</tt>). When you set <tt>spelllang</tt>, Vim offers todownload the language data into your <tt>.vim</tt> folder, if such language is not available.You can put the above settings in your <tt>.vimrc</tt> if you like4.

to typeset the document in the current buffer. Typesetting happens in the background if you are using Vim 8.0.0047 or later,

to show the errors (one error per line). The cursor stays in the main document, so your typing workflow is not

<tt>:cnext</tt>, etc… (see <tt>:help quickfix</tt>). It is See below for useful to add mappings for these commands. For example: nnoremap <silent> ]q :<c-u><c-r>=v:count1<cr>cnext<cr>zz nnoremap <silent> [q :<c-u><c-r>=v:count1<cr>cprevious<cr>zzOr install Tim Pope's <i>unimpaired</i> plugin.

An alternative way to typeset a document is to use <tt>:make</tt>. Make sure that Set the current workingdirectory is set to the path to directory of the file you want to compile (set with current buffer, then execute <tt>:lcd …make</tt>), and type: lcd /path/to/my/project

If a <tt>Makefile</tt> is present exists in the working directory, it will be is used (you see below for a sample Makefile).You may<tt>let g:context_ignore_makefile=1</tt> to ignore it)an existing Makefile. OtherwiseIf no Makefile is found, <tt>mtxrun</tt> willbe invoked directly. Note that <tt>:make</tt> always performs synchronous typesetting. Also, if there are

to <tt>~/.vim/after/ftplugin/context.vim</tt>, after which pressing <tt>\tt</tt> (where <tt>\</tt> is your leader key) will save (if necessary) and compile the file.

You may decide whether to use enable synctex or not by setting the <tt>g:context_synctex</tt> flag to <tt>1</tt> or (the default is <tt>0</tt>,respectively. For example):

Finally, for each of the above variables, a corresponding buffer-local variable with the same name may be defined,whose value takes precedence over the global value.

* <tt>[[</tt>: jump to the previous start of subject/, section/, chapter/, part/, component/, or product;* <tt>]]</tt>: jump to the next start of subject/, section/, chapter/, part/, component/, or product;

paragraph“), delete it with <tt>dtp</tt>, select it with <tt>vtp</tt> and so on. In particular, you may reflowa paragraph it with <tt>gqtp</tt> (see <tt>:help gq</tt>)., etc…

* autocomplete: http://vim.sourceforge.net/scripts/script.php?script_id=182, almost undocumented, but life-saving* spell-checker: http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=499, but native spell-checking support is included in Vim 7 (see above).= Autocompletion ===

Vim offers a good completion mechanism (<tt>:help ins-completion</tt>), but there are several pluginsthat improves on it, in particular, to provide automatic completion of keywords: * µcomplete: https://github.com/lifepillar/vim-mucomplete* Completor: https://github.com/maralla/completor.vim* NeoComplete: https://github.com/Shougo/neocomplete.vim* Deoplete (for NeoVim): https://github.com/Shougo/deoplete.nvim* YouCompleteMe: https://github.com/Valloric/YouCompleteMe* AutoComplPop: https://github.com/vim-scripts/AutoComplPop* SuperTab: https://github.com/ervandew/supertab ==A note on filetype detection = TODO = TeX (Plain TeX), LaTex and ConTeXt all use the <tt>.tex</tt> extension for files, which makes it difficult to detect the filetype based on the extension. From Vim 7 onwards, Vim does some intelligent checking to see it the file is <tt>plaintex</tt> or <tt>latex</tt> or <tt>context</tt>. If the first line of a <tt>*.tex</tt> file has the form %&<format>then this determines the file type: <tt>plaintex</tt> (for Plain TeX), <tt>context</tt> (forConTeXt), or <tt>tex</tt> (for LaTeX). Otherwise, the file is searched for keywords tochoose <tt>context</tt> or <tt>tex</tt>. If no keywords are found, it defaults to <tt>plaintex</tt>.You can change the default by defining the variable <tt>g:tex_flavor</tt> to the format(not the file type) you use most. Use one of these: let g:tex_flavor ="plain" let g:tex_flavor ="context" let g:tex_flavor = "latex"Currently no other formats are recognized. * If you use ConTeXt most of the time, but occasionally use LaTeX or Plain TeX, you can add the following to your <tt>.vimrc</tt> let g:tex_flavor = "context"* If you only use ConTeXt, you can add the following lines to <tt>filetype.vim</tt>: " ConTeXt augroup filetypedetect au! BufRead,BufNewFile *.tex setfiletype context augroup ENDso the next time you open a <tt>*.tex</tt> file, Vim will always recognize it as a ConTeXt document.

* extract data from texweb and create syntax highlighting definitions for ConTeXt== A note on spell checking ==* some essential math support* proper URL highlighting ('%' doesn't start Vim 7 or later has a commentbuilt-in spell checker. To enable it or disable it, use: :set spellor :set nospellrespectively.To set the language to be used for spell checking, set the <tt>spelllang</tt> option accordingly..) [request by VnPenguin]For example:* perhaps borrow something from http :set spelllang=en_usUse lowercase letters (<tt>en_us</tt>, not <tt>en_US</tt>). When you set <tt>spelllang</tt>, Vim offers todownload the language data into your <tt>.vim-latex</tt> folder, if such language is not available.sourceforgeYou can put the above settings in your <tt>.netvimrc</?tt> if you like.