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")
...
Also, you probably have set TeX-parse-self to t as recommended in the basic
setup. I guess this combination explains why things "just work"?
-mandar
