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Re: [AUCTeX] TeX-clean in multifile document
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Greg Bognar |
Subject: |
Re: [AUCTeX] TeX-clean in multifile document |
Date: |
Sat, 10 Feb 2018 21:13:08 +0100 |
Hi Mosè,
Yes, I'm using \include. I understand that \input does not create extra .aux
files, so there it's not an issue, but then I cannot use \includeonly. So I
guess it's a trade off between two convenience features.
Thanks for the clarification!
Greg
On Sat 10 Feb 2018 at 19:24 Mosè Giordano wrote:
> Hi Greg,
>
> 2018-02-10 19:16 GMT+01:00 Greg Bognar <address@hidden>:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Say you are working on a multifile document with file1.tex, file2.tex, etc,
> > and
> > with the master file masterfile.tex. It's handy to clean up the generated
> > files
> > with TeX-clean. However, TeX-clean will only delete files which have the
> > base
> > name of the master file, i.e., masterfile.*. But TeX also generates .aux
> > files
> > for file1.tex, file2.tex, etc., and these are not deleted. Is there a way
> > to
> > have TeX-clean delete these files as well? Or is there any reason this
> > would
> > not be a good idea?
> >
> > (I tried putting "*\\.aux" in TeX-clean-default-intermediate-suffixes list
> > of
> > extensions, but it didn't work.)
> >
> > This is mostly a matter of convenience, but I'm curious if it's possible.
>
> I guess you're "\include"ing the files, rather than "\input"ting them,
> right? I agree it would be a good idea to clean up the auxiliary
> files for secondary files, but the way AUCTeX currently records the
> names of the included files this isn't supereasy. They're listed in
> `TeX-active-styles', but mixed together with classes and packages, so
> it's difficult to extract just the names of the included files.
>
> Unless you have a real need to use "\include", with "\input" you don't
> have multiple auxiliary files.
>
> Bye,
> Mosè