Avoid .aux to be deleted when cleaning up temporary files

[franvillamil]

I'm trying to setup LaTeXTools to remove all temporary files, but leaving the .aux file standing, as it is sometimes useful when working with subfiles and cross-references between different documents.

Currently, I have this on preferences:

{
    "output_directory": "<<cache>>",
    "temp_files_exts": [
        // ".aux",
        ".bbl", ".bcf", ".blg", ".brf", ".dvi", ".fdb_latexmk",
        ".fls", ".glo", ".idx", ".ilg", ".ind", ".lof", ".log", ".nlo",
        ".out", ".pdfsync", ".ps", ".run.xml", ".synctex.gz", ".thm",
        ".toc", ".xdy",
    ],
}

But the .aux file is not being kept. I think it might have to do with the fact that built is done in the <<cache>> folder and then only the .pdf is moved to the main folder. Is there any other way to do this?

Running macOS Ventura, ST4, and LaTeXTools 4.2.3.

[deathaxe]

Current implementation treates <<cache>> as internal non-user-accessible storage and thus always clears all files. temp_files_exts is only taken into account for normal folders (relative to main document etc.).

There's no way around this behavior.

Implementation

LaTeXTools/latextools/delete_temp_files.py

Lines 152 to 165 in 12bdd64

	if output_directory is not None:
	if output_directory_setting.startswith("<<"):
	# we cannot delete the output directory on Windows in case
	# Sumatra is holding a reference to it
	if sublime.platform() == "windows":
	self._clear_dir(output_directory)
	else:
	self._rmtree(output_directory)
	else:
	deleted = self.delete_temp_files(output_directory)
	else:
	# if there is no output directory, we may need to clean files
	# in the main directory, even if aux_directory is used
	deleted = self.delete_temp_files(os.path.dirname(root_file))