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

[Greg Bognar]

On Wed  1 Apr 2020 at 02:58 Joost Kremers wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 31 2020, Greg Bognar wrote:
> > In my init.el, there are two more packages that add to the list:
> > auctex-latexmk and latex-extra.  latex-extra uses add-to-list and
> > auctex-latexmk uses append.
> 
> Well, at least that tells us where "Notes.bib" comes from. :-)
> 
> > So what I'd like to do is to append `LaTeX-clean-intermediate-suffixes' with
> > some more suffixes.  However, doing
> > 
> > (setq LaTeX-clean-default-intermediate-suffixes
> >         '(append LaTeX-clean-default-intermediate-suffixes
> >                  '("\\.dvi" "\\.ent" "\\.fmt" "\\.rel" "\\.rip"
> > "\\.tags" "\\.vrb")))
> > 
> > does not work.  (Even if I completely comment out auctex-latexmk and
> > latex-extra.)
> > 
> > What is the proper way to append `LaTeX-clean-intermediate-suffixes',
> > preserving all the other additions to it?
> 
> The proper way is to actually set `LaTeX-clean-intermediate-suffixes`. (Check
> your `setq` above *carefully*... ;-P )

Ah, I see.  So it should be

(setq LaTeX-clean-intermediate-suffixes
      (append LaTeX-clean-intermediate-suffixes
        '("\\.dvi" "\\.ent" "\\.fmt" "\\.rel" "\\.rip" "\\.tags" "\\.vrb")))

Embarrassing.  Thanks!