Prevent texlab from building.

[AdhTri001]

Hello Sir! I love this project. Tho I found some buggy behavior with the building functionality of the extension so I want to disable it. It fills the directory with artifacts and texlab.auxDirectory and texlab.build.args doesn't seem to help. So I want to disable this functionality and continue with very customizable Code Runner extension. How can I stop the build?

[pfoerster]

Thanks for the kind words!

So I want to disable this functionality

texlab should not build automatically unless you set texlab.build.onSave to true. For the VSCode extension, you can unbind the latex.build command so it does not trigger a build when you press F5: https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/getstarted/keybindings#_removing-a-specific-key-binding-rule

It fills the directory with artifacts and texlab.auxDirectory and texlab.build.args doesn't seem to help

Have you tried the -outdir=build option of latexmk? You can add it to texlab.build.args and set texlab.auxDirectory to "build". texlab.auxDirectory is "read-only" in the sense that the value is not passed to latexmk. Instead, it is used to find the directory containing the log and aux files.

If you want, you can share your texlab configuration here. Then, I can take a look at it.

[AdhTri001]

@pfoerster

Have you tried the -outdir=build option of latexmk?

I did it, and failed. I though maybe some of the settings are clashed or something. I tried ./artifacts in both args and auxDirectory. Idk why it didn't worked, BUT when I added full path to build folder like C:/path/to/artifacts it created the folder but no artifacts. I somehow managed to stop the build functionality by removing latexmk as build command.