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How to let AUCTeX open PDF with pdf-tools
Here's my setup, using auctex-11.89 and pdf-tools-20151224.1159:
;; Use pdf-tools to open PDF files
(setq TeX-view-program-selection '((output-pdf "PDF Tools"))
TeX-source-correlate-start-...
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changing the role of the underline and the minus-sign just in LateX-mode
Something like this:
(add-hook 'LaTeX-mode-hook 'my-latex-hook)
(defun my-latex-hook ()
(require 'tex-site)
(define-key LaTeX-mode-map "-" (lambda () (interactive) (insert "_")))
(define-key ...
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How to indent items in LaTeX/AUCTeX itemize environments?
@sykora's comment about (setq LaTeX-item-indent -2 LaTeX-indent-level 4) is almost there, but it does mean we spill over to every other environment as well. So, for example, we would also have:
\...
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How to call pdflatex under TeX-PDF-mode?
Just type latex instead of pdflatex at the C-c C-c prompt. TeX-PDF-mode sets the TeX-engine to pdflatex automatically. The command you are entering at the prompt is only representative of what you ...
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How to find out what my AUCTeX version is?
It is contained in the AUCTeX-version variable:
C-h v AUCTeX-version RET
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How to make auto-complete work in AucTeX mode?
After doing a long research in the web and careful examination of ac documentation with a lot of trials on my machine to examine code line by line, I came up with this solution that can have yasnippet ...
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How to delete a LaTeX macro while preserving its text content?
Try this function:
(defun mg-TeX-delete-current-macro (&optional arg)
"Remove the current macro.
With an optional argument ARG, delete just the ARG-th macro
starting from the innermost."
(...
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Select images in auctex with preview
If you set LaTeX-includegraphics-read-file to LaTeX-includegraphics-read-file-relative, autocompletion with helm provides this feature:
Setting up AUCTeX
You can either customize LaTeX-...
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How can I preview TeX formulas inline in arbitrary modes?
I've tried to re-use AUCTeX preview-latex but failed and gave up.
Org-mode also provide the same feature. Turns out weechat managed to re-use it to automatically show latex preview.
I've extracted ...
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how to detect if inside a LaTeX math environment?
The function texmathp defined in AUCTeX (autoloaded from texmathp) does exactly that (ok, actually it does a bit more).
Used interactively, it will give you some more information, including whether ...
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How to use AUCTeX and outline-minor-mode together for folding?
Outline mode and the AUCTeX folding facilities are two different beasts that are meant to do broadly the same thing: hide and show selected parts of the buffer. Personally, I find the AUCTeX ...
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Auto-inserting last used sub-/superscript values in math formulae
Add to your init file:
(defvar mg-TeX-insert-subscript-history nil)
(defvar mg-TeX-insert-superscript-history nil)
(defun TeX-insert-sub-or-superscript (arg)
"Insert typed key ARG times and ...
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A comprehensive list of shortcuts provided by AUCTeX
Yes, there is an index of keybindings: it's in the index of the AUCTeX manual.
Note: I got to this index by googling "auctex manual", opening up the first hit, which is the manual, selecting the HTML ...
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How to delete a LaTeX macro while preserving its text content?
From the AUCTeX manual node on Changing the
font:
C-c C-f C-d
Delete the innermost font specification containing point.
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Gradually learning the keybindings provided by AUCTeX
Modifying my answer from here we can just pull this data out of LaTeX-math-default, which is a list of 4-tuples
(CHARACTER MACRO MENU UNICODE)
where CHARACTER is the character used to bind it (I ...
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Arara integration in Emacs?
Add the appropriate entry to TeX-command-list. Insert the following code in your init file:
(eval-after-load "tex"
'(add-to-list 'TeX-command-list
'("Arara" "arara --verbose %s" TeX-run-...
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Multiple major modes in one buffer (e.g., python-mode & LaTeX-mode)
MMM-mode (multiple major modes) seems exactly what you're looking for. It is mentionned on the emacs wiki. You need to define a submode class to mix LaTeX and python, specifying that python parts ...
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Define a new key binding for font (Auctex)
Customize LaTeX-font-list: M-x customize-variable RET LaTeX-font-list RET. Select Math Prefix: for ^C key (the prefix C-c C-f is omitted) and add \mathscr{ to "Math Prefix:" field and } to "Math ...
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What is "override advice"?
Some information about advices
An advice is mainly a method of last resort to customize the behavior of functions defined in other libraries. There are many variants of advice. Examples are:
...
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AucTeX: can I hide comments?
You can use TeX-fold-comment (C-c C-o C-c) to hide the comment. You need to enable TeX-fold-mode to make use of this functionality.
See the AUCTeX manual on folding macros and environments for more ...
Dan♦
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Indentation in square brackets
Setting LaTeX-begin-regexp and LaTeX-end-regexp does not help here because inside LaTeX-indent-level-count it searches a backslash before checking the regexp.
I got it working by modifying TeX-brace-...
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Formatting of usepackage commands in LaTeX document
If you want a command to stay in a line on its own, add it to LaTeX-paragraph-commands:
(setq LaTeX-paragraph-commands '("documentclass" "usepackage"))
But, honestly, I didn't ever see anyone trying ...
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How to pass flags to the LaTeX compiler with AUCTeX?
Use TeX-command-extra-options (and check out the manual before asking questions ;-)
AUCTeX handles in a special way most of the main options that can be given to the TeX processors. When you need to ...
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AUCTeX - delete 'other' files like .out, .aux, .log on successful compilation
Actually, you don't need to customize anything. The variable in question is called LaTeX-clean-intermediate-suffixes and has the following default value:
LaTeX-clean-intermediate-suffixes is a ...
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Surprisingly persistent local variable
In case someone else runs into this, I had enabled TeX-auto-save, which saves settings to an auto/ directory and loads them when a file is revisited.
https://www.gnu.org/software/auctex/manual/...
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How does AucTeX display superscripts?
Use the raise display property. As explained in (info "(elisp) Other Display Specs"):
`(raise FACTOR)'
This kind of display specification raises or lowers the text it
applies to, relative ...
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A comprehensive list of shortcuts provided by AUCTeX
You can run C-hb to see the current bindings.
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Is there a shortcut for \mathrm in AUCTeX?
C-c C-f C-r will do it. Check out the AUCTeX manual for the keybindings for all of the standards.
Dan♦
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Overriding fill-paragraph in LaTeX mode
It would be better to have 2 functions, although one can be implemented in terms of the other. The reason being that a paragraph is an implicit region, so the input in both cases should be different
(...
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Recompile tex file without modification
C-c C-c calls TeX-command-master, which prompts you for a command (with what it expects you to choose as the default option). Even if it does not detect that the document has changed, you can always ...
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