How to get synctex forward searching to work with vim and zathura on macOS?

Question

Using the vimtex plugin, forward searching (from the .tex file to the .pdf) works with Skim but not with zathura.

In nvim, the error Vimtex: Viewer cannot find Zathura window ID! appears. This seems to be caused by a problem with xdotool, which does not assign a window id to the zathura window.

But in Terminal, the following command doesn't do anything either:

zathura --synctex-forward 100:10:mwe.tex mwe.pdf

Has anyone been successful in getting forward search to zathura to work on macOS?

No, currently using Skim which works perfectly. There is talk over at the Vimtex Github of a patch. — Timothy Roes, Dec 17 '20 at 17:21
Can you please link a guide which details setting up skim? Also, what are the differences you have observed between skim and zathura? — Nitin, Dec 17 '20 at 20:32
See the vimtex documentation https://github.com/lervag/vimtex/blob/master/doc/vimtex.txt. The following in your .vimrc should do the trick: let g:tex_flavor='latex' let g:vimtex_compiler_progname = 'nvr' let g:vimtex_view_method = 'skim'
Additionally, I'm using the following settings in Skim > Preferences > Sync: Preset: Custom; Command: nvim; Arguments: -remote-silent %line "%file" Note that I am using nvim. If using nvim you should have neovim-remote (a plugin) installed.

Zathura is more lightweight and can be customised to use the same colorscheme as your vim. — Timothy Roes, Dec 18 '20 at 11:47
For other editors see also: pdftex - How to setup synctex with vim, pdflatex and an open-source PDF-viewer under Linux? - TeX - LaTeX Stack Exchange — user202729, Oct 22 '21 at 15:57

How to get synctex forward searching to work with vim and zathura on macOS?

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