Choosing main .tex file in multifile setting

[TryerGit]

Hello,

I have been using Vim and VimTeX for my LaTeX needs thus far. I would like to give LaTeX-Workshop and VSCode a try.

Given the following setting:

% main.tex
\begin{document}
Hello World! \person
\end{document}

% professor.tex
\documentclass{minimal}
\newcommand{\person}{from professor}
\input{main.tex}

% student.tex
\documentclass{minimal}
\newcommand{\person}{from student}
\input{main.tex}

can LaTeX-Workshop ask the user which of professor.tex or student.tex to choose as the "main" file?

VimTeX does provide this option. Please see my discussion here

Thank you.

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Sorry for the noise: I should have been more diligent. A similar question was asked and answered in the negative here: #3493

[James-Yu]

The file in active editor will be used as root if possible. Otherwise, an auto root-detection system will kick in. See https://github.com/James-Yu/LaTeX-Workshop/wiki/Compile#multi-file-projects

[TryerGit]

Yes, I did go through that document and yet when there are two competing root files, it picks one by itself. I was hoping the user could be prompted for which root to pick if there are two or more equally valid ones.

[Innokentiy-Alaytsev]

Hello!

Another potentially related issue is that only *.tex files are considered when looking for the root files. It might be unorthodox, but I want my TiKz figures to have *.tikz extension and sometimes I want to build them on their own. I have added a separate recipe for building the file I want but Latex Workshop is unable to use it because it doesn't find the root file, even if I add the magic comment or add *.tikz to latex-workshop.latex.search.rootFiles.include