'Vim command line locks until opened file is closed
I am trying to run latex in Vim (without leaving normal mode) in the following way:
- Open the document.tex in vim
- Compile the .tex file and turn it into a .pdf file. I do this with :! pdflatex %
- View the pdf file. I do this with :! %<.pdf
This does show the pdf file (in ms edge) but the command line of Vim is locked: I can't do anything at all until I close the pdf file viewer. This is uncomfortable because, while I only need to compile from time to time, I want to keep the pdf open when correcting mistakes
Why doesn't :! %<.pdf work? Why does the cmd (I'm running this on Windows) "keep running" the command? How can I fix this?
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