VimTeX 2.16

@ces42

I'm glad to announce another release of VimTeX. There's a lot of minor improvements. The main highlights, in my opinion, are:

🚀 Faster core performance of the syntax rules!
↔️ The new tse general environment toggle seems useful; see :help g:vimtex_env_toggle_map for more info on how it can be customized. The old tse for toggling starred environments is changed to tss.
🌔 I've begun to learn more Lua and I think, with time, I will start to implement more of the core functionality in Lua.

After this release I'll bump the version requirements for Vim to v9.1 and neovim to v0.10.

Features

Syntax
- Improve syntax core performance (#3006)
  - There's a few tricks used here that are now documented in the code. Credits go to @ces42; thanks!
- Core syntax rules
  - Highlight basic syntax errors (#2960)
  - Use more strict concealed delimiter matching rules (#3002)
  - Add proper \lVert and \rVert highlighting (#3006)
  - Add support for accented character conceals in mathmode (#2356)
- Support \mathbfit and improve other \math… commands (#3004)
- Package support
  - Add support for robust-externalize (#2977)
  - Add support for apacite (#2981)
  - Add support semiverbatim (#3000)
  - Add support for unicode-math (#3004)
  - Add support for luacas (#3050)
  - Improve support for fontawesome5 (#2951)
- Conceals
  - [breaking] Don't conceal whitespace before/after delimiters (#3013)
    - This is annotated as breaking, because it may yield a surprising behaviour to people used to the old behaviour where the whitespace was concealed. Please read the issue thread if you find the new conceal behaviour for delimiters surprising.
  - Use ∖ (U+2216) to conceal \setminus (#2947)
  - Add conceal for \[ul][lr]corner (#2952)
Commands and mappings
- [breaking] Add general environment toggler <plug>(vimtex-env-toggle) (#3072, #3075)
  - This is breaking, because the new map adopts the default map tse. This conflicts with the existing default map for <plug>(vimtex-env-toggle-star) which has been moved to tss. It seems like a much better choice.
- Add <plug>(vimtex-cmd-toggle-break) with default map tsb (#2948)
- Context action: Support bibdesk and Zotero (#2908)
Quickfix
- Sort error messages to the top of quickfix list (#3053)
- Handle more errors and warnings from latexlog and bibtex (#2950, #2924, #2943, #2953, #2994)
- Improve bibtex path handling (#2953)
Viewers
- Add support for passing column number to :VimtexInverseSearch (#3005)
- Zathura
  - Allow to disable synctex integration with g:vimtex_view_zathura_use_synctex (#3067)
  - Pass column number to inverse search (#3005)
Other
- Completion: Support angled brackets in \cite<...>{ (#2981)
- Folding: The markers fold type now supports markers with numbers (#3052)
- Compiler: Support @tex parameter for generic compiler (#2280)
- Core APIs
  - Add vimtex#cite#get_key() (#2908)
  - Add vimtex#cite#get_entry() (#2946)
- Neovim Lua (extras)
  - Implemented a parser combinator in Lua
  - Implemented a bibtex parser based on the parser combinator
  - Added initial utils for timing things in Lua

Documentation

Improved the installation instructions (#2934)
Improved the configuration guides (#2961)
Improved docs of g:vimtex_syntax_custom_cmds (#1972)
Improved the inverse search docs (#2701, #3038)
Added snippet about synctex terminal focus (#2971, #2579)
Added an idea about launchctl to the Zathura MacOS faq (#3076)
Update docs to explain customization of foldtext (#3056)
Several minor adjustments and improvements (e.g. #2986, #2997, #3027)

Bug Fixes

Syntax
- Ensure \{ is matched as texSpecialChar (#2933)
- Add missing contained for texRefConcealedOpt2 (#2984)
- Fix a minor regression bug with texMathCmdStyleBoth (#3004)
Other
- Remove includeonly from g:vimtex_include_indicators (#2519, #3044, #3045)
- vlty
  - Use proper shellescape on Windows (#3069, #3070)
  - Prefer g:python3_host_prog if it is set (#3068)
- Fix bad use of win_findbuf() for inverse search (#2990)
- Fix path issue on Windows for image completion (#2954)
- Fix issue when a user uses the formatter but not indents (#2992)
- Fix tsd in some cases by ensuring a stricter handling of get_surrounding-functions for delimiters (#3024)
- Fix :save behaviour by ensuring a consistent state (#3042)
- Fix a bug with gls completion (#3046)
- Fix a bug with ts$ (#3063)
- Fix problem with very long file names in the cacher (#3001)
- Use jobs APIs to start jobs to open web pages (#2908)
- Update texdoc server (#3071)
- Allow to abort the chooser for main document when opening a file (#2930)
- Add minor delay after starting jobs to ensure they are started (#2972)
- Ensure to restore silencing of info output properly in compiler callback (#3032)
- Use a less strict label complete menu parser (#3036)
- Several minor fixes and adjustments (#2968, #2972)

Acknowledgements

Again there has been several contributions from the community, and as before I would like to give a special thanks to everyone who contributes with PRs:

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