Re: [AUCTeX] Automatically running makeindex

[Ralf Angeli]

* Joe Smith (2009-08-28) writes:

> From the AUCTeX manual section 3.2.1:
>   If a latex run produces or changes input files
>   for makeindex, the next suggestion will be to
>   run that program, and AUCTeX knows that you
>   need to run latex again afterwards-the same
>   holds for BibTeX.
>
> However, I cannot seem to get AUCTeX to ever suggest Index as the next 
> command to run. Further, I could not find any code in the source to do that 
> either. Is this not implemented? Was it previously implemented and then 
> removed?

It was probably wishful thinking of the author of the quick start guide.

But perhaps it would be a good idea to finally implement this.  I just
need a way to determine when to run makeindex.  It looks like LaTeX
writes the idx file on every run, even if the contents will stay the
same.  Despite of that I'd like to offer the Index command in AUCTeX
only if there was an actual change.  An idea could be to compare md5sums
of the file or its size before and after the LaTeX run.

-- 
Ralf