AUCTeX is a package for writing (La)TeX, ConTeXt, docTeX and TeXinfo in Emacs and XEmacs.

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Emacs Auctex View command

I need help using the View command in Auctex running in emacs. This is essential for viewing pdfs and without it I can not make TeX documents. In my emacs file I have the following (which was created ...
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Beamer.el not loaded

from what I have learnt from my research so far, auctex should load beamer.el automatically once a *.tex file with \documentclass{beamer} is loaded. However, this is not the case here and I find the ...
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Cleveref: AUCTeX and RefTeX set-up

How can I set up cleveref to work with AUCTeX and RefTeX? I have tried the advice on Emacs, RefTeX and Cleveref – can they work together? but it didn't work. Additionally, when I hit enter, \ref{} ...
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configuring auctex in emacs

I need help with configuring auctex in emacs. I have downloaded and installed auctex but I cannot get anything to work. I am running MAC OS X 10.8.4 and am running emacs through the terminal. If I use ...
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Cross-references: managing references when there are 1000+ across 100 pages

I am using Emacs with AUCTeX in case that matters. I have many \labeled items and was wondering if there is a way to bring up a list of them? I hate having to scroll through to the document to find ...
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emacs+auctex: prevent region filling when inserting itemize

When inserting an itemize environment around some text (using C-c C-e) AucTeX insists on doing paragraph-filling on said text, which messes up my layout. Is there a simple way to prevent that ? ...
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Skip spelling in EMACS for the content of a user macro

In EMACS, in order to skip spelling for the arguments of a user macro, one appends an entry to the ispell-tex-skip-alists variable. For example, to skip parsing the argument of \mycommad, one adds ...
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How do I provide/trigger the special support for letters in AUCTeX?

As you probably know, the letter document class has quite a few pieces of metadata that go along with it, e.g. name, address, signature, etc. It would be really nice if all of this was put into the ...
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Folding braces in Emacs/AucTeX

I have some code looking like this: 142 \newcommand*\john[2]{ 143 blah blah blah blah 144 blah blah 145 blah blah blah 146 blah 147 } 148 149 \newcommand*\peter[3]{ 150 blah blah ...
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Forward Search in Emacs for Okular not working

On Emacs, I am trying to get forward search with Okular. Right now, I have the following command: okular --unique %o#src:%n`pwd`/./%b But, this does not take me to the right line, as I'd expect. ...
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Adding commands to TeX-command-list not working on OS X [closed]

in my .emacs I add a few commands to the TeX-command-list, which works fine on my Ubuntu and Debian laptops. On my wife's Macbook however, when invoking the TeX-command-list (C-c C-c) it appears to be ...
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Smart Quotes Control in AucTeX

If I have the statement \usepackage{ngerman} in my source-code AucTeX recognizes this and inserts correct german quotation marks if I press " twice. For example "`a german quote"' How can I make ...
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void-variable latex-mode-abbrev-table

I'm using auctex + Emacs(OSX) Problem: If I open an LaTeX file, it works right. But if I open an plain tex file, it complains. Debugger entered--Lisp error: (void-variable latex-mode-abbrev-table) ...
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How to make `latexmk` run the appropriate amount of times

System: Ubuntu 13.04, Texlive2012, Emacs 24.something, I run Emacs from the terminal and not the GUI, and I have server mode on in Emacs. When compiling my latex documents, I use AucTeX in emacs to ...
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AucTeX PDF syncing in Emacs, multiple windows problem

I have enabled Tex-source-correlate-mode with synctex as the syncing method. When I have a single Emacs window open, it works fine. But if I have multiple Emacs windows open, whenever I press ...
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AUCTeX: global pdf mode stop working after typesetting error occurs

Update: I've tested the problem in detail, and the results are appended at the end of the question. I guess now the problem becomes: How to avoid stupid diagnostic of AUCTeX when curly braces ...
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font-lock defining keywords containing special characters and whole-words

I found the reference to "\\" on line 283 of font-latex.el of auctex-11.86, and I'd like to remove it as a warning (which is easy enough to delete manually). I have not figured out a way to define ...
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Emacs / AUCTeX — Customization of keyword highlight syntax

font-lock-keyword-face is used by AUCTeX for all keywords, and I have not been able to find a way to create a new keyword that is a different color. I have defined the foreground of ...
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Click on macro name to jump to its definition?

Encouraged by a super response to my previous question on a similar topic, I shall persevere with a similar line of inquiry. I think it would be super if, in my LaTeX editor, I could click on a macro ...
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Click on package name to open corresponding style file?

I think it would be super if, in my LaTeX editor, I could click on the name of package... \usepackage{blob} ... and the corresponding style file, blob.sty, would be opened. Do any LaTeX editors ...
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Emacs/AucTeX: can LaTeX-math-list read a macro that requires input?

I wanted to make a macro that inserts \left \right delimiters, but I wanted to write it only once and have different bindings pass different delimiters. To wit, I wanted to add the following code: ...
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AUCTeX -output-directory + copy *.pdf to working directory

Part I: Could someone please give me an example of how to configure AUCTeX to use the -output-directory option? I've tried inserting -output-directory="/tmp" in a variety of ways at different ...
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Preview TikZ figure in AUCTeX?

I am using AUCTeX on Emacs. Recently I began to draw pics using TikZ, but the problem is AUCTeX doesn't generate preview of this environment. (However, it does generate preview for the general figure ...
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Compilation of main tex file from a chapter file with AucTeX

I have a main LaTeX file that has multiple chapter files included using \input command. For compiling them in emacs/auctex, I have to open main LaTeX and ^C^C. How can I compile the main LaTeX from ...
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How to make AUCTeX ignore syntax highlighting within environment

I have a problem with syntax highlighting in the Emacs editor using AUCTeX. The problem occurs in particular with the Verbatim environment from the fancyvrb package. Consider the following code: ...
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AUCTeX preview font size too small

I have Emacs 24 and AUCTex on a Windows 7 machine, however the preview font size is just way too small. Is there a way to make them bigger?
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Change view-command in Emacs and AUCTeX (pdf mode)

My version of Emacs and AUCTeX[1] uses TeX-evince-sync-view for viewing pdf. This command is not working for some reason. Evince is launched but Emacs freezes and I have an error Couldn't find ...
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how to reload pdf and preserve same position file (in emacs)?

I would like to view pdf files in emacs, and when I reload them from disk I want to be at, more or less, the same position in the new file as I was in the old one. I am viewing these with the bundled ...
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Emacs and Auctex automatic compilation (and syntax highlighting) of extental TikZ files

I am using Emacs with Auctex. Is it possible to make files with .tikz extension to enter latex-mode automatically? Also, what is the best practice for compiling .tikz files that will be included in ...
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Can't turn off fontified subscripts in Emacs 24

Under Emacs 24.3 and Auctex, the sub/superscript fontification is occurring outside math modes. This appears in either Beamer or normal LaTeX docs. Per this question, I've included the following ...
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Narrow to Environment in AUCTeX

I'd like to be able to use some org-mode-like features inside of AUCTeX. In org-mode, you can narrow the buffer to a node or you can flatout send the node to a separate buffer for editing. How can ...
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How to specify self-installed fonts to XeLaTeX?

I successfully installed the font (*.tfm, *.pfb and *.vf files) of my university, I'm now struggling to use them with XeLaTeX. About my specifications: I am running TeXLive 2011 using AucTex 11.86. ...
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Follow-up question: include entire command with emacs/auctex

This is a Follow-Up question to auctex does not parse own sty file I can use C-c C-m to use mytext from this MWE \documentclass{article} \newcommand{\mytext}{This is a simple text.} \begin{document} ...
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auctex does not parse own sty file

a own sty file is not parsed to find commands, it means they can not use with C-c C-m I use the following .emacs (load "auctex.el" nil t t) (load "preview-latex.el" nil t t) (require 'tex-site) ...
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AUCTeX + compilation minor mode does not jump to error

I have setup AUCTeX to show me the compilation output rather than the traditional help if an error occurs with the following code: (defadvice TeX-TeX-sentinel-check(after open-log-on-error (process ...
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Problems with AucTeX and Emacs24

I download AucTeX from ELPA and put nothing in my .emacs file. However, the commands auctex and preview-latex do not seem to be there (when I try M-x auctex or M-x preview-latex, Emacs cannot find ...
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AUCTeX preview-latex previews are ugly (too narrow)

Is there a way to fix Emacs AUCTeX's preview-latex to make the previews look less ugly? Specifically, they are squashed vertically to a height of exactly one line of text. I have screenshots to show ...
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Compile a region in auctex with import package

Consider the three following (see below) files: test.tex is in the main directory, test1.tex is in the subdirectory ./test1/ and test11.tex is in the subsubdirectory ./test1/test11/ (see the directory ...
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Multifile and dvi output from the 'master.tex'

I have a report composed of multiple files where I name the master file as 'master.tex' and set (setq-default TeX-master "master") in my .emacs file. I compile the master file and try to click the ...
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C-c C-r to see the effect of a change in equation

I am recently experimenting with Auctex and preview-latex, I read the quick-start part of Auctex documentation. I have a question on C-c C-r, I created a simple test document and therein I am ...
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AUCTeX changes name of pdf file when compiling with LuaTeX

I'm using AUCTeX with emacs 24.1 on Ubuntu 11.10. I have the TeX Command set to compile using LuaTeX and to produce pdfs. Everything works except that the name of the pdf changes from the file name ...
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No support for Asymptote in AUCTeX

I got a problem with my Emacs/AUCTeX setup. I'm using a lot of Asymptote graphics in my TeX documents, but there is a big problem to compile such documents inside of Emacs with AUCTeX. However I can ...
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Passing aux directory option to AUCTeX

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 ...
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How can I tell AUCTeX to turn off math mode for the argument of shortintertext?

I would like to have AUCTeX turn off math mode for the argument of the shortintertext command from the mathtools package. I customized the variable texmathp-tex-command to add the following line to my ...
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auctex, hooking into wrapping specific environment

I do a lot of editing using Emacs and auctex, some of this involve wrapping certain parts of the manus with a certain environment. This is quite easy using transient-mark-mode and C-c C-e. But I'd ...
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How can I get my LaTeX set up on Emacs/AUCTeX to use the -file-line-error option when calling pdfTeX

I have been puzzling over this for the past few hours and can't quite figure it out. I am using AUCTeX 11.87 and MiKTeX 2.9 on Emacs 24.2 (obtained from Vincent Goulet with AUCTeX pre-packaged): I ...
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Customizing preview-latex command to use LaTeX when in TeX-Pdf mode

In short: Is there a way to tell preview-latex to NOT use pdflatex instead of just toggling TeX-Pdf mode every time I want to re-generate previews? I have a somewhat odd setup. AucTeX + GNU Emacs 24 ...
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Renaming label names in AucTex to recover ordered sequence

By rearranging (copy-and-pasting) math environments the automatically RefTeX generated label numbers \begin{align} \label{eq:5} ... \end{align} texttexttext... \begin{align} \label{eq:3} ...
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Hide/show individual chapters/sections/… in the RefTeX TOC buffer

RefTeX/AucTeX allow to display the maximum level of toc entries displayed in the ‘toc’ buffer. Is it also possible to hide(collapse)/show(expand) individual chapters and sections in the ‘toc’ buffer? ...
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AUCTeX: how to jump to PDF (with synctex) without recompile when inline preview has been created?

I'm using Aquamacs 2.4 on MacOS X 10.6.8 with pdflatex (TeXLive 2011). My problem: I can create inline previews of formulas, figures etc. in the source code with AUCTeX which is very helpful - e. ...

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