Re: Adding to TeX-clean-default-intermediate-suffixes

[Joost Kremers]

On Mon, Mar 30 2020, Greg Bognar wrote:
> > You should probably customize
> > `LaTeX-clean-intermediate-suffixes`. 
> > `TeX-clean-default-intermediate-suffixes`
> > just provides the default value for 
> > `LaTeX-clean-intermediate-suffixes`, which
> > is why it's not a defcustom. (I assume that setting it doesn't 
> > have any effect
> > because its value is not checked when cleaning out files. The 
> > value of
> > `LaTeX-clean-intermediate-suffixes` is used for that.
>
>
> Thanks.  I checked `LaTeX-clean-intermediate-suffixes` and its 
> original value is
>
> ("\\.aux" "\\.bbl" "\\.bcf" "\\.blg" "\\.brf" "\\.dvi" "\\.ent"
>  "\\.fdb_latexmk" "\\.fls" "\\.fmt" "\\.fot" "\\.glo" "\\.gls"
>  "\\.synctex\\.gz" "\\.idx" "\\.ilg" "\\.ind" "\\.lof" "\\.log" 
>  "\\.lot"
>  "\\.nav" "\\.out" "\\.rel" "\\.rip" "\\.snm" "\\.tags" "\\.toc" 
>  "\\.url"
>  "\\.vrb" "\\.run\\.xml" "\\.acn" "\\.acr" "\\.alg" "\\.glg" 
>  "\\.ist")
>
> which is my list, appended with ("\\.acn" "\\.acr" "\\.alg" 
> "\\.glg" "\\.ist")
> as it should be from latex.el at (defcustom 
> LaTeX-clean-intermediate-suffixes...
> at line 6061.
>
> But the actual value is 
>
> ("Notes\\.bib" "\\.tdo" "\\.aux" "\\.bbl" "\\.blg" "\\.brf" 
> "\\.fot"
>  "\\.glo" "\\.gls" "\\.idx" "\\.ilg" "\\.ind" "\\.lof" "\\.log" 
>  "\\.lot"
>  "\\.nav" "\\.out" "\\.snm" "\\.toc" "\\.url" "\\.synctex\\.gz" 
>  "\\.bcf"
>  "\\.run\\.xml" "\\.fls" "-blx\\.bib" "\\.acn" "\\.acr" "\\.alg" 
>  "\\.glg"
>  "\\.ist" "\\.fdb_latexmk" "\\.aux.bak" "\\.fls")
>
>
> So it seems `LaTeX-clean-intermediate-suffixes` *does* pick up 
> my setq for 
> `TeX-clean-default-intermediate-suffixes`, but then something 
> overrides it.  I
> never use any "Notes.bib" file, so I don't think it's something 
> in my config.
> Do you have any suggestions what it might be?

Have you checked your config? Perhaps you set it a long time ago 
and forgot about it? (Happens to me more often than I care to 
admit. ;-) Or perhaps you're using some Emacs starter kit or a 
config from somewhere else? Or perhaps a file-local or dir-local 
variable? 

My advice would be to remove the `setq` from your config, 
customize `LaTeX-clean-intermediate-suffixes` to the value you 
want it to have and see what happens.

--
Joost Kremers
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