Re: [AUCTeX] Re: I don't understand how to install Auctex

[Ed C.]

José Carlos Santos wrote:
> On 01-04-2009 15:32, Leo wrote:
>
> > You don't really need cygwin to run emacs+AUCTeX etc. In fact there is
> > precompiled emacs¹ for windows that has AUCTeX in it already, I mean no
> > extra installation of AUCTeX is needed.
> >
> > When you have all those external tools (MiKTeX ghostscript etc.)
> > installed, you need to make sure the executable is in your PATH.
> >
> > For preview to work in Windows, you also need to set:
> >
> > ;; stick this in your .emacs file
> > (setq preview-gs-command "C:/Program Files/gs/gs8.63/bin/gswin32c.exe")
>
> Why? I don't have such a line on my .emacs file and everything works
> fine. Besides, I see no reference to such a line at the AucTeX manual.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Jose Carlos Santos
>
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You only need this if you want to preview with ghostscript. The op 
should do M-x cd ~/ ret
Then Menu > File > Visit New File .emacs ret
Copy-paste this into buffer:

(load "auctex.el" nil t t)
(load "preview-latex.el" nil t t)


(setq TeX-auto-save t)
(setq TeX-parse-self t)
(setq-default TeX-master nil)
(add-hook 'LaTeX-mode-hook 'turn-on-reftex)
(setq reftex-plug-into-AUCTeX t)

C-x C-s

Exit Emacs
Re-start Emacs

Also since he is on msw he might want to make a shortcut to runemacs.exe 
--debug-init with "Start In" set to his most common edit directory.