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I use Emacs and MikTeX. With the latter comes a PDFLaTeX option to move clutter in a temp-dir directory: -aux-directory temp-dir. I am tentatively trying to pass it to AUCTeX with:

(setq tex-start-options "-aux-directory temp-dir")

Doesn’t work! I am not very knowledgeable with AUCTeX internals. Can you give some hints and examples on LaTeX-command, latex-run-command, tex-start-options and tex-start-commands and the likes?

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You can use latexmk with AUCTeX and pass the pdflatex option via the .latexmkrc file. – N.N. Jan 22 at 17:56
@N.N. Can you tell me what are the benefits of using Latexmk over simple Emacs/AUCTeX? Isn’t AUCTeX already an interface between Emacs and the LaTeX binaries? Isn’t it possible to do in Elisp what Latexmk does in perl? – antonio Jan 22 at 20:01
AUCTeX is such an interface and I have not that much experience with it as I have used latexmk via it instead, so I can't really say. latexmk works well (compiles as many times as needed for everything to be done) and it easy to configure. – N.N. Jan 22 at 20:56

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