Just to follow up, my attempts to get vimtex to work unfortunately were unsuccessful. However, along the way reading neovim plugin docs I started to figure out

Just to follow up, my attempts to get vimtex to work unfortunately were unsuccessful. However, along the way reading neovim plugin docs I started to figure out the difference between neovim and vim and was able to get things working via the following process: sudo dnf install neovim sudo dnf install python3-neovim mkdir -p ~/.config/pack/foo/opt/mytex cd ~/.config/pack/foo/opt/mytex [download https://github.com/peterbjorgensen/sved/ftplugin https://github.com/peterbjorgensen/sved/ftplugin] cp ~/.vimrc ~/.config/nvim/init.vim add the line "packadd mytex" to init.vim add the line "alias vim='nvim'" to ~/.bashrc :)