Access from included files to environments in AUCtex

Question

When I am writing slides, I usually use one master file and several dependent files; as a macro package I use beamer. I would like to access the environments defined by the beamer package also in the dependent files (which I include through \input) through C-c C-e. I can access them in the master file. By the same token, I would like to access the macros in my macro packages, which I also include through \input. My .emacs file contains the lines

(setq-default TeX-master nil)
(setq TeX-parse-self t)
(setq TeX-auto-save t)

Any suggestions?

Answer 1

This answer might point you in the right direction.

The summary of it is that the \input files can be configured to find their master file by appending the following lines at the end:

%%% Local Variables:
%%% TeX-master: "your-main-filename"
%%% End:

By doing this, and with AUCTeX's ability to parse the files for macros, it should be able to recognize that the input files belong to a master beamer file, and use the beamer environments.