Re: [AUCTeX] Re: Want help in the latest auctex -- Help worked

[Dr. Sethuraman]

Ralf Angeli's hints worked well for me. Thanks to Ralf Angeli.

Later on, I will post a more detailed description of how I used his
suggestions for a slightly larger problem that I was facing - namely
using LaTeX to type in several foreign languages, where each language
used a different preprocessor.

Jayaram Sethuraman

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Date: Wed, 06 Aug 2008 23:07:12 +0200
From: Ralf Angeli <address@hidden>
To: Dr. Sethuraman <address@hidden>
Cc: address@hidden
Subject: Re: [AUCTeX] Re: Want help in the latest auctex

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* Sethuraman (2008-08-06) writes:

> > (eval-after-load "tex"
> >  '(add-to-list 'TeX-command-list '("Devnag" "devnag %s" TeX-run-command t t
> >                                     :help "Run devnag") t))
> >
> > AUCTeX will ask you if you want to save the buffer before running the
> > command if the variable `TeX-save-query' is non-nil.
>
> I entered the lines above "(eval-after  ... etc. in my .xemacs/init.el
> file and it runs Devnag under ctrl-c ctrl-c. However it still runs as
> "devnag myfile.dn" and not as "devnag myfile". (I found that my .emacs
> file loads .xemacs/init.el and so I made the changes there.)

Sorry, I forgot one thing.  You have to add "dn" to the list of file
extensions AUCTeX recognizes.  Here is an extension of the above code
which does this.  (Alternatively you could have customized the variable
`TeX-file-extensions' with `M-x customize-variable <RET>
TeX-file-extensions <RET>'.)

(eval-after-load "tex"
 '(progn
    (add-to-list 'TeX-command-list '("Devnag" "devnag %s" TeX-run-command t t
                                     :help "Run devnag") t)
    (add-to-list 'TeX-file-extensions "dn" t)))

By the way, I don't consider it a good idea to load XEmacs-specific
customizations in Emacs.  It would be safer to transfer the
customizations you are interested in from .xemacs/init.el to .emacs and
stop loading the former in the latter.

> Also, I do not know how to set the variable 'Tex-save-query' as
> non-nil. Can I add a line in init.el to do this, so that it will ask
> to save an edited file before running devnag on it?

M-x customize-variable <RET> TeX-save-query <RET>

--
Ralf