xindy with AUCTeX

Question

Is there a way to seamlessly integrate xindy with AUCTeX so that if I execute C-c C-c repeatedly (or alternatively if I execute C-c C-a once) the AUCTex engine will know the sequence of commands required to eventually produce a PDF file of my .tex source, including indices?

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Consider the following LaTeX document:

\documentclass{amsart}

\usepackage[xindy]{glossaries}
\makeglossaries
\newglossaryentry{x}{name={world},description={the universe}}

\begin{document}

\title{The Title}
\maketitle

Hello, \gls{x}!

\printglossaries

\end{document}

If I run the following sequence, the resulting document doesn't contain a glossary (see below). Why? How can it be fixed?

1. C-c Latex
2. C-c Xindy
3. C-c Latex
4. C-c View

The resulting pdf file:

Answer 1

AUCTeX has an entry for Xindy in TeX-command-list since 2013, but probably no one ever used it, since it seems it's wrong.

It turned out that the OP wanted to run the command

xindy -L english -C utf8 -I xindy -M myDoc -t myDoc.glg -o myDoc.gls myDoc.glo

being myDoc the base name of the TeX file.

It's possible to customize the entry for Xindy in TeX-command-list. One is by using customize-variable and is described in this comment, the other one, slightly better, is the following: add the following line to your init file:

(eval-after-load "tex"
  '(setf (cadr (assoc "Xindy" TeX-command-list))
         "xindy -L english -C utf8 -I xindy -M %s -t %s.glg -o %s.gls %s.glo"))

AUCTeX offers the possibility to create a custom sequence of command to run. For example, you can bind the sequence LaTeX - Xindy - LaTeX - View to the C-c a with the following code added to your init file:

(eval-after-load "latex"
  '(define-key LaTeX-mode-map (kbd "C-c a")
     (lambda ()
       (interactive)
       (TeX-command-sequence '("LaTeX" "Xindy" "LaTeX" "View") t))))

It should be easy to adapt this code to your needs (change the keyboard shortcut or the sequence).