Wrong file built in a directory with multiple main files

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Wrong file built in a directory with multiple main files #757

Closed haoming-li-ling closed 1 year ago

haoming-li-ling commented 2 years ago

As in the title. If there are many main files in the same directory, running TexlabBuild on one of the files could result in one or more different files being built; the file actually open may or may not get built. I know it's probably not good practice to keep multipole main files in the same directory, but still this doesn't seem to be the desired behavior.

pfoerster commented 2 years ago

Thanks for the report. This one is a bit difficult to diagnose. I have a few questions:

Do you use the subfiles package?
Does each main file have a document environment in the same file?
Do you use tectonic?
Do the main files (indirectly) share code?

haoming-li-ling commented 2 years ago

No subfiles
Each main file has a document env
Not using tectonic; I am just using lualatex from my TeX distro
They share a single .bib file; nothing else is shared

haoming-li-ling commented 2 years ago

I think the shared .bib file can be the problem. I tried building multiple main files in another directory where the files don't share a .bib file, nothing surprising happens.

pfoerster commented 2 years ago

I think the shared .bib file can be the problem.

@Doltonius Yeah, this can definitely be a problem for texlab. Due to the way, the current algorithm works, all files are thrown together into one "project". That's why, the selection of the root file is arbitrary in this case.

I am currently working on a fix but this might take some more time.