James-Yu/LaTeX-Workshop ? reverse-engineered prompt

Build me a Visual Studio Code extension for people writing LaTeX documents. I want it to make editing feel smooth instead of painful. It should compile the current project into a PDF, show errors and warnings in the editor, and let me open a built in PDF preview that refreshes when I rebuild.

Add helpful completion for citations, references, commands, environments, files, BibTeX entries, Greek letters, and common math shortcuts. Include snippets for sections, environments, fonts, and wrapping selected text. It should support projects split across several files, clean generated files, and work with common LaTeX tools if they’re installed.

Add linting for obvious problems like duplicate labels, formatting for LaTeX and BibTeX files, and quick hover previews for equations or package docs when possible. Please make the setup friendly for Windows, macOS, Linux, WSL, and Docker users. Look up current VS Code extension docs online if you need to.