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Can I mark a local variable as safe for a single file only?
In the elisp manual at C-hig (elisp)File Local Variables we find:
You can specify safe values for a variable with a
‘safe-local-variable’ property. The property has to be a function of
one argument; ...
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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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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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Emacs setup for LaTeX after (use-package) verse
The essential part is to load latex instead of tex, see the first line.
(also I did some small cleanups)
(use-package latex
:mode
("\\.tex\\'" . latex-mode)
:bind
(:map LaTeX-mode-map
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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 to make Emacs start using the Xetex engine as default
From AUCTeX's documentation:
User Option: TeX-engine
This variable allows you to choose which TeX engine should be used for
typesetting the document, i.e. the executables which will be used ...
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Trying to install auctex via package-install
Elpa seems to be having issues again. (Reddit discussion.)
Maybe try adding
(setq gnutls-algorithm-priority "NORMAL:-VERS-TLS1.3")
to your config as mentioned here.
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AUCTeX: how to compile a file, which does end in '.ins'
Known extensions to AUCTeX are controlled by the variable TeX-file-extensions:
TeX-file-extensions is a variable defined in ‘tex.el’.
Its value is ("tex" "sty" "cls" "ltx" "texi" "txi" "texinfo" "...
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How to create a small bibtex file from a bigger one?
reftex has the command reftex-create-bibtex-file that you can call via the menu Ref -> Global Actions -> Create BibTeX File.
I cite the help of reftex-create-bibtex-file here:
Create a new ...
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Looking for a way to have LaTeX source code and its real-time rendering in side-by-side Emacs windows
latex-preview-pane on melpa can do that.
You can enable it in a file being edited with AUCTeX by M-x latex-preview-pane RET or for any LaTeX file opened in this mode by placing
(add-hook 'LaTeX-mode-...
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How to perform a search for a string inside math environments in a tex/latex document
Bundled with AUCTeX there is the texmathp utility (which, however, is independent from the TeX modes provided by AUCTeX and can be used without it), which allows you to test whether point is inside a ...
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How do I configure my own shortcuts in Auctex (Emacs)?
Here is an example of what you want to accomplish:
(with-eval-after-load "latex"
(define-key LaTeX-mode-map (kbd "s-z")
(lambda ()
(interactive)
(LaTeX-insert-environment "quote")))
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Fix indentation of LaTeX code without wrapping lines
If you only want to indent a region, you should call an indenting function, not a filling function that, as you guessed, is meant to break lines.
For example, you can use C-M-\ (M-x indent-region RET)...
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Setting MUpdf as default viewer in AUCTeX
Here is (I think) the simplest way to do this. The first adds mupdf as a new view program, while the second specifies it as the default for pdfs.
(with-eval-after-load "tex"
(add-to-list 'TeX-view-...
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Call emacsclient from a program called by Emacs
The solution is to run texdoc within an asynchronous process.
The best way to do that is probably to use start-file-process instead of shell-command-to-string (which is a handy function for quick&...
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How can I type simple underline "_" in Auctex
You can always insert a character literally by typing C-q first (quoted-insert).
Many “electric” characters (that's what Emacs usually calls characters whose insertion has extra effects such as ...
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Don't switch to math-mode when entering `$` in a `minted` environment
You can add minted environments to the latex-verbatim-environment variable:
M-x customize-variable latex-verbatim-environments, insert a new string "minted", and save your changes. You may need to ...
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AUCTeX doesn't run bibtex even though .emacs file is set up appropriately
For some reason, the file wasn't actually parsed, so AUCTeX didn't know about the bibliography file. This shouldn't usually happen if you set TeX-parse-self and TeX-auto-save to t, but you can easily ...
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How to get rid of the auto folder with .el files?
You can disable parsing when you save your file with this line in your init file:
(setq TeX-auto-save nil)
Now you can trigger parsing with C-c C-n manually. When you do this, AUCTeX will still ...
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Change AUCTeX behavior inside an environment
You can use mmm-mode available at GNU Elpa.
There are examples how mmm-mode is to be configured.
In your case the following Elisp lines in your init file should work.
When you open a LaTeX file ...
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What are the main differences between latexmk and C-c C-a from Auctex?
C-c C-a uses AuCTeX's heuristics for deciding which list of commands to run. The usual case is to use the function TeX-command-default which is defined in tex-buf.el. So no, latexmk is not used.
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How can I automatically add some local variables info to a C-x C-f new (.tex) file?
You can use a hook to achieve this. Use the one you need as described in auctex documentation. Here we check the file extension so that we don't do that for eg .sty files. Also, we test the buffer-...
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electric pair of any length, using AUCTex
AUCTeX has a bultin support for pairing braces, and \{...\} is in the default set of supported braces. In order to enable this feature, just set LaTeX-electric-left-right-brace to non nil, either ...
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Indentation in square brackets
This feature was added to AUCTeX with this change. Note that this is an opt-in feature: if you want to activate it for square brackets, you have to customize the variables TeX-indent-open-delimiters ...
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Run flyspell-buffer automatically after emacs loads a (tex)-file
It suffices to properly choose and trickily chain hooks.
(add-hook 'text-mode-hook #'flyspell-mode)
(add-hook 'flyspell-mode-hook #'flyspell-local-vars)
(defun flyspell-local-vars ()
(add-hook '...
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AucTeX: Disable electric-pair-mode in minibuffer during Macro definition?
To specifically disable electric-pair-mode in the minibuffer change elethan's example to use the minibufferp function. Below is the relevant part from my Emacs configuration:
;; Enable smart paring
(...
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