Re: [AUCTeX] Parsing first line

[Mosè Giordano]

2015-02-20 10:19 GMT+01:00 Tassilo Horn <address@hidden>:
>> Last year I tried to work on implementing a local variable to specify
>> the output directory, and so indirectly fix Alistair's problem, but
>> I've never finished it.
>
> Couldn't you simply put the -output-directory option into
> `TeX-command-extra-options'?  Ah, no, then the View commands won't work
> of course...

Indeed the goal was to cater for view and clean commands as well.

>> (One of) The main problem was how to share such variable across
>> multiple files of the same document (store it in the auto file?), but
>> there is the same problem for other variables like `TeX-engine'.4
>
> Is that necessary?  I mean, tex commands are either invoked on the
> master file or the region file, where in both cases the local vars of
> the master file's buffer are in effect, no?

Well, I should check it again, but I think those variables are
evaluated in the buffer calling the commands, not in the master file.

Bye,
Mosè