How to define custom compile commands in auctex?

Question

I'm using TeXLive 2014 on MacOS X 10.6 and I'm currently working with Aquamacs 2.5.

I'm currently using two different shell scripts for compiling my LaTeX document (thesis), which are located in ~/bin/script1.sh and ~/bin/script2.sh

• At the moment I always switch to the terminal application for compiling and launch one of those commands there.
• I'd like to define a custom keybinding in Emacs which lets me run those scripts directly without leaving Emacs.

How can I do that?

Answer 1

I assume you call your compile scripts like this:

~/bin/script1.bash master.tex

and that you only has to call it once. In this case here's a defun which does it:

(defun tex-custom-compile (arg)
  (interactive "P")
  "Calls `~/bin/script1.sh' on file associated with current buffer.
With C-u calls `~/bin/script2.sh' instead"
  (let (script texFile)

    (cond
     ((equal arg '(4))
      (setq script "~/bin/script2.sh ")
     )
     (t
      (setq script "~/bin/script1.sh ")
     )
    )

    (async-shell-command 
     (concat
      script
      (buffer-file-name)
     )
    )
  )
)

This defun should be easy to tweak to adjust it to your particular need. When you are satisfied with this defun bind it to a key:

(define-key TeX-mode-map (kbd "C-c C-t C-p") 'tex-custom-compile)