Change engine to xelatex in Neovim

[Spaceface16518]

The solution presented in #263 makes sense but for some reason it is not working on neovim.

My configuration is as follows.

require'lspconfig'.texlab.setup{
    settings = {
        texlab = {
            build = {
                args = { "-pdf", "-pdflatex=xelatex", "-interaction=nonstopmode", "-synctex=1", "%f" }
            }
        }
    }
}

But diagnostics still show the same error and suggest that I switch to xelatex.

Is there something obvious I'm missing? Or is this just broken.

[pfoerster]

But diagnostics still show the same error and suggest that I switch to xelatex.

Does your log file mention xelatex? texlab itself does not care about the TeX engine you are using (in fact, it does not need a TeX engine for most features) so these errors are originate from latex; texlab only forwards these errors from the build log to neovim.

[pfoerster]

My configuration is as follows.

I have found one bug in texlab (there is an easy fix: bd85205). The config does not apply if you do not specify the build executable as well. As a workaround you can set texlab.build.executable to latexmk.

[Spaceface16518]

Oh okay thank you so much!

[pfoerster]

bd85205 is part of the 4.2.0 release