Thus I implemented TeXwrapper, a small program which silently runs TeX and optionally some associated tool like BibTeX, MakeIndex, eukleides or Dvips. When an error occurs, TeXwrapper scans the transcript files and prints to stderr "compiler style" error messages, i.e.: ::: This allows very simple settings on Vim's side, that is: set makeprg=texwrapper set errorformat=%f:%l:%c:%m TeXwrapper has been released under the GPL and is available at: