Scim-latex-tables is a vim plugin that generates Latex tables using sc-im, an excel-like spreadsheet program for the terminal emulator.
I wrote this vim plugin for personal use, since writing Latex tables is a huge pain. You can find it useful too if you use Vim as your text editor for .tex files and have to write tables in your documents regularly.
Type 'newTable' or 'importTable' (if you want to import an existing 'csv' file as a table) where you want your table to be. Sc-im will open up in your terminal emulator running Vim. Create/edit your table, save the file and exit sc-im just like you would normally do in Vim, :w and :q. Then a full tex-formatted table will appear in your document. You just have to fill in the caption, label and tabular gaps.
- sc-im
- sed (This package is usually installed by default in almost every Linux distribution)
Just stick scim-latex-tables.vim in your plugin/ directory.