Avoid lazy-loading for vimtex

[danieleavitabile]

I am switching from another plugin to packer on neovim, and am embracing the lua philosophy. I anticipate that my questions will be very silly, apologies for that.

I think most packages are fine by now, but I have problems with vimtex. According to the README and the developers, I should be careful not to use lazy-loading with this package, because it breaks inverse search, which is vital for me.

My latest configuration is the following:

• In lua/plugins.lua I load the package with use 'lervag/vimtex'
• In plugin/vimtex.lua I use:

vim.g.vimtex_view_method = 'skim'
vim.g.vimtex_view_automatic = 0
-- vim.g.vimtex_compiler_latexmk = {'continuous': 0}
vim.g.vimtex_quickfix_open_on_warning = 0

• My 'after/ftplugin/' is currently empty, but I plan to put here only non-vimtex related commands (say vim.cmd([[setlocal spell]]) )

Here are my questions:

1. Can you comment on whether the setup above implies that vimtex is not lazy-loaded, or give me some pointers as to why this is the case? My inverse search still does not work and I am trying to understand if I lazy-load the package instead.
2. I feel that the commented option vim.g.vimtex_compiler_latexmk = {'continuous': 0} will not work, because lua probably understands braces in a different way than vimtex expects. Do you know how to fix that?

Thanks in advance.