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VimTeX vs AUCTeX: catalog facts
VimTeX	AUCTeX
Free Free and open source under the MIT licence.	Free Free software from the GNU Project.
Command line	Windows, macOS, Linux
Works in both Vim and Neovim Compilation through latexmk with inverse search	Supports LaTeX, ConTeXt, Texinfo, AMS-TeX and docTeX preview-latex shows formulas as images in the source
Requires recent Vim or Neovim versions Depends on external tools such as latexmk	Requires GNU Emacs and familiarity with it Needs a separate TeX distribution to compile documents
Downloadable app	Downloadable app
Open source	Open source
License: MIT	License: GPL-3.0-or-later
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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