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AUCTeX vs VimTeX: catalog facts
AUCTeX	VimTeX
Free Free software from the GNU Project.	Free Free and open source under the MIT licence.
Windows, macOS, Linux	Command line
Supports LaTeX, ConTeXt, Texinfo, AMS-TeX and docTeX preview-latex shows formulas as images in the source	Works in both Vim and Neovim Compilation through latexmk with inverse search
Requires GNU Emacs and familiarity with it Needs a separate TeX distribution to compile documents	Requires recent Vim or Neovim versions Depends on external tools such as latexmk
Downloadable app	Downloadable app
Open source	Open source
License: GPL-3.0-or-later	License: MIT
No account needed	No account needed
Works offline	Works offline
Official website Full listing and sources Checked October 2, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked October 2, 2026

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