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2.8 Customizing

Most of the site-specific customization should already have happened during configuration of AUCTeX. Any further customization can be done with customization buffers directly in Emacs. Just type M-x customize-group RET AUCTeX RET to open the customization group for AUCTeX or use the menu entries provided in the mode menus. Editing the file `tex-site.el' as suggested in former versions of AUCTeX should not be done anymore because the installation routine will overwrite those changes.

You might check some variables with a special significance. They are accessible directly by typing M-x customize-variable RET <variable> RET.

User Option: TeX-lisp-directory

The directory where you installed the AUCTeX lisp files.

This variable is set automatically during configuration. If you don't issue a make install, for example if you don't want to install AUCTeX in a different place, you will have to set this variable manually to the location of the compiled files. It is generally advisable to do a full installation including make install because program and documentation files will be copied to their proper places.

User Option: TeX-macro-global

Directories containing the site's TeX style files.

Normally, AUCTeX will only allow you to complete macros and environments which are built-in, specified in AUCTeX style files or defined by yourself. If you issue the M-x TeX-auto-generate-global command after loading AUCTeX, you will be able to complete on all macros available in the standard style files used by your document. To do this, you must set this variable to a list of directories where the standard style files are located. The directories will be searched recursively, so there is no reason to list subdirectories explicitly. Automatic configuration will already have set the variable for you if it could use the program `kpsewhich'. In this case you normally don't have to alter anything.


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