You can spend lots of time getting vim setup to your liking, and probably never finish customizing. My suggestion is to start small and stick to the basics before going crazy with plugins. While I've included some plugins, the hope is that you can easily get started with LaTeX with a minimal of effort and/or Googling.
Here is a small section of some of the things I've figured out to have vim working for editing LaTeX files easily.
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Copy the file below to a file
vimrc
and start vimvim -u vimrc
to use the file. After all your customization if you are happy then save your configuration to~/.vimrc
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You can then start vim and install the plugins using the command
:PlugInstall