On Sun, Jul 4, 2021 at 1:58 PM Mandar Mitra <mandar.mi...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hongyi Zhao wrote (Sun, Jul 04, 2021 at 11:10:55AM +0800): > > This way, the above command won't need root privilege. But based on my > > later tries, it seems that there is no need to run the above command > > at all, and auctex already can give wonderful and rather extensive > > completion results with its initial configuration. To be frank, I'm > > still not sure on the usage and function of TeX-auto-generate-global > > and TeX-auto-global [1]. > > > > Any hints will be highly appreciated. > > From tex-site.el: > > (defcustom TeX-auto-global > (if (file-writable-p "/usr/local/var/auctex") "/usr/local/var/auctex" > "~/.emacs.d/auctex") > ...
But I don't have all the folders above: werner@X10DAi:~$ ~/.emacs.d/auctex bash: /home/werner/.emacs.d/auctex: No such file or directory werner@X10DAi:~$ /usr/local/var/auctex bash: /usr/local/var/auctex: No such file or directory > > Also, you probably have set TeX-parse-self to t as recommended in the basic > setup. Yes. See all settings below on my Ubuntu 20.04 box: (load "auctex.el" nil t t) (load "preview-latex.el" nil t t) (setq TeX-parse-self t ; parse on load TeX-auto-save t ; parse on save ;; use hidden dirs for auctex files TeX-auto-local ".auctex-auto" TeX-style-local ".auctex-style" TeX-source-correlate-mode t TeX-source-correlate-method 'synctex ;; don't start the emacs server when correlating sources TeX-source-correlate-start-server nil ;; automatically insert braces after sub/superscript in math mode TeX-electric-sub-and-superscript t ;; just save, dont ask me before each compilation TeX-save-query nil) > I guess this combination explains why things "just work"? I am still not very clear about its working mechanism. Any more hints? > -mandar > Regards -- Assoc. Prof. Hongyi Zhao <hongyi.z...@gmail.com> Theory and Simulation of Materials Hebei Vocational University of Technology and Engineering NO. 552 North Gangtie Road, Xingtai, China