[AUCTeX] Re: (user-variable-p 'TeX-command-default) returns nil

[Leo]

On 2007-09-23 21:06 +0100, Reiner Steib wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 09 2007, Leo wrote:
>
>> I wonder why (user-variable-p 'TeX-command-default) return nil.
>
> ,----[ <f1> f user-variable-p RET ]
> | user-variable-p is a built-in function in `src/eval.c'.
> | (user-variable-p variable)
> | 
> | Return t if variable is intended to be set and modified by users.
> | (The alternative is a variable used internally in a Lisp program.)
> | [...]
> `----
>
> Why do you think that `TeX-command-default' is "intended to be set and
> modified by users"?
>
> Bye, Reiner.

The doc gives an example of setting it in a local variables section.

,----[ (info "(auctex)Commands") ]
|    If you want to overwrite the values of `TeX-header-end',
| `TeX-trailer-start', or `TeX-command-default', you can do that for all
| files by setting them in either `TeX-mode-hook', `plain-TeX-mode-hook',
| or `LaTeX-mode-hook'.  To overwrite them for a single file, define them
| as file variables (*note File Variables: (emacs)File Variables.).  You
| do this by putting special formatted text near the end of the file.  
| 
|      %%% Local Variables:
|      %%% TeX-header-end: "% End-Of-Header"
|      %%% TeX-trailer-start: "% Start-Of-Trailer"
|      %%% TeX-command-default: "SliTeX"
|      %%% End:
`----

HTH,
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