Ciao Mosè,
thanks a lot for the quick reply. This indeed fixed the problem. And thanks
also for the TeX-source-correlate-mode tip, this is much cleaner than
adding the --synctex option.
Regards,
Alfredo
On Mon, Sep 25, 2017 at 2:59 PM, Mosè Giordano <m...@gnu.org> wrote:
> Ciao Alfredo,
>
> 2017-09-25 14:50 GMT+02:00 Alfredo Buttari <alfredo.butt...@gmail.com>:
> > Hi,
> > I have a large .tex file with the following footer:
> >
> > %%% Local Variables:
> > %%% mode: latex
> > %%% TeX-master: t
> > %%% TeX-engine: xetex
> > %%% TeX-command-extra-options: "-shell-escape --enable-write18
> --synctex=1"
> > %%% End:
> >
> > When I open it I am asked whether I want to accept the potentially unsafe
> > value for the TeX-command-extra-options. In this message the potentially
> > unsafe value corresponds to what I have in the footer, i.e.,
> "-shell-escape
> > --enable-write18 --synctex=1". I hit yes and the file is opened.
> However, if
> > I ask emacs to describe variable TeX-command-extra-options (with C-h
> C-v) I
> > get this:
> >
> > TeX-command-extra-options is a variable defined in `tex.el'.
> > Its value is "--synctex=1"
> > Original value was ""
> > Local in buffer hdr.tex; global value is ""
> >
> > Automatically becomes buffer-local when set.
> >
> > Documentation:
> > String with the extra options to be given to the TeX processor.
> >
> > You can customize this variable.
> >
> >
> >
> > It seems that the value of this variable is overwritten once again in
> some
> > other place. Note that this does not happen if I create a simple file
> > containing only (exactly the same footer):
> >
> >
> > \documentclass{article}
> >
> > \begin{document}
> >
> > \end{document}
> >
> > %%% Local Variables:
> > %%% mode: latex
> > %%% TeX-master: t
> > %%% TeX-engine: xetex
> > %%% TeX-command-extra-options: "-shell-escape --enable-write18
> --synctex=1"
> > %%% End:
> >
> >
> > Could you please help me figure out what's happening?
>
> If you have it, try deleting the auto/hdr.el file, automatically
> generated by AUCTeX when parsing the document. The value of
> `TeX-command-extra-options' is stored there, in order to make it
> available to all files part of the same document, but if you change
> the value of that variable you can incur this nuisance.
>
> In addition, note that you can enable `TeX-source-correlate-mode' in
> order to get forward/inverse search, without setting `--synctex=1' in
> in `TeX-command-extra-options'.
>
> Bye,
> Mosè
>
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