[Tex/LaTex] Automatic dollars signs in TeXstudio

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Every time I use a command like \left(\right) in TeXstudio, it automatically wraps it in dollars signs but I don't want it to happen. How can I stop the automatic dollar sign problem?

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Go to TeXstudio and choose Preferences. Under "Completion", untick "Auto Insert Math delimiters where needed".

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[Tex/LaTex] TeXStudio doesn’t recognize some commands

TeXStudio recognises commands that it finds in files ending with .cwl. The \eqref command and the align* environment come from the amsmath package, so you need to make sure that amsmath.cwl is loaded. Under some circumstances, this will happen automatically, but the mechanism isn't foolproof (e.g. it doesn't know that amsmath can be loaded indirectly via \usepackage{mathtools}).

On a Mac, you can ensure that amsmath.cwl is loaded by going to

TeXStudio --> Preferences

selecting Completion on the left and checking the box next to amsmath.cwl. Presumably the procedure is similar on other operating systems. If the other unrecognised commands also come from packages for which TeXStudio has cwl files, activate these as well. Section 1.4 of the TeXStudio manual explains how to add your own cwl file for commands that do not come from standard packages.

[Tex/LaTex] load custom .cwl on a per-document basis in TexStudio

Reposted the comments above as an answer:

TeXstudio automatically detects \newcommand definitions and adds these commands to the completer. If you don't need the cwl file to specify special behavior of the command, you can simply leave out cwl files at all. But if you really need cwl files, there is currently no way to automatically load specific ones. We'll consider this in the further development.

Meanwhile if you don't want to switch the cwls manually you could load both and add * to the less often used command. Then it will only show up in the "all" tab of the completer. (Ok it's a crude workaround, but at least both commands will be known and only one will appear in the "typical" completer tab.)

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