Examples

Open Current File in VS Code

Use an absolute path to the code executable (shell aliases are not available inside plugin execution contexts).

/path/to/vs/code/code "{{{path}}}"

Compile LaTeX on Demand

JavaScript action:

new Notice('compiling latex');
 
const COMPILE_SCRIPT = '/absolute/path/to/bash/script.sh';
const FILE_PATH = '{{{path}}}';
 
const PATH_PARTS = FILE_PATH.split('/');
const FILENAME = PATH_PARTS.pop();
const DIR = PATH_PARTS.join('/');
 
exec(`cd "/${DIR}" && "${COMPILE_SCRIPT}" "./${FILENAME}"`, (err, stdout, stderr) => {
  if (err) {
    console.error(err, stderr);
    new Notice('dang it, failed');
    return;
  }
 
  console.log('fin', stdout);
  new Notice('successfully compiled');
});

Shell script example:

set -e
 
if [ -z "$1" ]; then
  echo "Usage: $0 /full/path/to/file.tex"
  exit 1
fi
 
FILEPATH="$1"
DIRECTORY="$(dirname "$FILEPATH")"
FILENAME="$(basename "$FILEPATH")"
FILENAMETEXT="${FILENAME%.*}"
 
export PATH="/path/to/tiny/tex"
 
cd "$DIRECTORY"
 
pdflatex --shell-escape -interaction=nonstopmode "$FILENAME"
bibtex "$FILENAMETEXT" || true
pdflatex --shell-escape -interaction=nonstopmode "$FILENAME"
pdflatex --shell-escape -interaction=nonstopmode "$FILENAME"
Hooks