[AUCTeX] Re: Customizing pdfLaTeX for a particular file with AUCTeX (original question posted to tex.sx)

[Marcus Frings]

* Faheem Mitha <address@hidden> wrote:

> However, the suggestions given there, specifically the per-file
> solution given by  David Andrews, namely

> %%% Local Variables:
> %%% LaTeX-command: "latex -shell-escape"
> %%% End:

> looks like it should work, but doesn't. Emacs does recognize that I'm
> trying to set something and gives a warning, but it still doesn't
> work. I tried it with emacs -q in case something in my .emacs was
> messing stuff up, but it doesn't make any difference. What am I
> missing, if anything? Please CC me on any reply. Thanks.

I know that you are using Debian's AUCTeX. I guess that you ran into the
bug which I have reported in:

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=598120

Kind regards,
Marcus
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