[AUCTeX] Re: Questions about TeX-auto-global

[Ralf Angeli]

* Leon (2006-08-04) writes:

> Ralf Angeli <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> * Leon (2006-07-30) writes:
>>
>>> 1. `TeX-auto-global' dir is always empty. 
>>
>> It gets filled by `TeX-auto-generate-global'.
>
> I just run this command and it generates ~30M files in the /auto/
> dir. What does this benefit?

Completion support for macros, environments etc. defined in the LaTeX
style files installed at your site.

>>> 2. What happens if this dir doesn't end with a directory separator?
>>
>> Code relying on this prerequisite might not work.  (I haven't actually
>> checked that.)
>
> OK I see. It seems the INSTALL file in the source dir doesn't mention
> this.

That's what the doc string is for.

-- 
Ralf