texitor 2.1.0

A Vim-style LaTeX TUI editor.

A Vim-style LaTeX editor for the terminal.

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txtr (aka texitor) is a terminal-based LaTeX editor built for speed. It combines Vim-style modal editing with snippets, completions, citations, compiler tooling, and a growing plugin system.

Under active development. Expect bugs :)

Installation

pip install texitor

Requires Python 3.11 or later.

Usage

txtr file.tex

If the file does not exist, txtr creates it. Config and snippets are seeded to ~/.config/txtr/ on first run.

Whats in txtr ???

• Vim-style modal editing for .tex files
• LaTeX snippets and completions
• citation autocomplete from .bib files
• compiler commands and build/watch flows
• built-in + installable plugins
• a full docs site with config, snippets, and plugin guides

Quick start

txtr file.tex

Config and snippets are seeded into ~/.config/txtr/ on first run.

Inside txtr:

• ? opens the help menu
• : opens command mode
• :snippets jumps straight to snippet help
• :config show opens the config panel
• :plugin list shows installed plugins

IF YOU GET STUCK, READ THE DOCS! (click me)

Documentation

The full docs live at txtr.benji.mom.

Useful starting points:

• snippets: txtr.benji.mom/snippets/overview
• configuration: txtr.benji.mom/config/overview
• plugins: txtr.benji.mom/plugins/overview
• plugin development: txtr.benji.mom/plugins/development

Notes

• requires Python 3.11+
• compiler features expect tools like latexmk or pdflatex to be installed
• system clipboard features rely on platform clipboard tools

Contributing

txtr is early-stage. If you find a bug or want to add something, open an issue or PR on GitHub.

tl;dr - just make a pr ...