[AUCTeX] Re: Questions about TeX-auto-global

[Leon]

Ralf Angeli <address@hidden> writes:

> * Leon (2006-08-04) writes:
>
>> Ralf Angeli <address@hidden> writes:
>>
>>> * Leon (2006-07-30) writes:
>>>
>>>> 1. `TeX-auto-global' dir is always empty. 
>>>
>>> It gets filled by `TeX-auto-generate-global'.
>>
>> I just run this command and it generates ~30M files in the /auto/
>> dir. What does this benefit?
>
> Completion support for macros, environments etc. defined in the LaTeX
> style files installed at your site.
>
>>>> 2. What happens if this dir doesn't end with a directory separator?
>>>
>>> Code relying on this prerequisite might not work.  (I haven't actually
>>> checked that.)
>>
>> OK I see. It seems the INSTALL file in the source dir doesn't mention
>> this.
>
> That's what the doc string is for.

Thank you for clarifying this for me!

-- 
Leon