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

[Joost Kremers]

On Mon, Mar 30 2020, Greg Bognar wrote:
> In my config, I have
>
> (setq TeX-clean-default-intermediate-suffixes
>         '("\\.aux" "\\.bbl" "\\.bcf" "\\.blg" "\\.brf" "\\.dvi" 
>         "\\.ent"
>           "\\.fdb_latexmk" "\\.fls" "\\.fmt" "\\.fot" "\\.glo" 
>           "\\.gls"
>           "\\.synctex\\.gz" "\\.idx" "\\.ilg" "\\.ind" "\\.lof" 
>           "\\.log"
>           "\\.lot" "\\.nav" "\\.out" "\\.rel" "\\.rip" "\\.snm" 
>           "\\.tags"
>           "\\.toc" "\\.url" "\\.vrb" "\\.run\\.xml"))
>
> I added a number of extra extensions to the default value for 
> files created by
> RefTeX, Beamer, Synctex, etc.  I want to clean up all these 
> files once I'm done
> with a document.
>
> However, this does not work.  E.g., it leaves RefTeX's .rel 
> files around.  Why
> is that?  Is it because TeX-clean-default-intermediate-suffixes 
> is defined by a
> defvar in tex.el, rather than a defcustom?  Shouldn't this be a 
> customizable
> option in the first place?  If not, what is the proper way to 
> add the extra
> extensions?

You should probably customize `LaTeX-clean-intermediate-suffixes`. 
`TeX-clean-default-intermediate-suffixes` just provides the 
default value for `LaTeX-clean-intermediate-suffixes`, which is 
why it's not a defcustom. (I assume that setting it doesn't have 
any effect because its value is not checked when cleaning out 
files. The value of `LaTeX-clean-intermediate-suffixes` is used 
for that.

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Joost Kremers
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