That's Vim gives us a list of matched "$ some maths symbles $" when we press some keys after typing just "$" or "$ with more maths".
My solution (basing on latex-box) for completing inline eqs in either inline env or numbered env
That's you have typed two eqs, you want to type them for another time:
% two inline eqs
$hello$ $world$
% completion in inline env
$[part of "hello"]<ctrl-x><ctrl-o>
% completion in numbered env,
% it's still triggered in the same way, but will leave eq without "$"
\begin{equation}
$[part of "world"]<ctrl-x><ctrl-o>
EDIT1
In the official repo of Latex-box, this functionality is disabled by default.
The switch is let g:LatexBox_complete_inlineMath = 1
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