Re: On the usage and function of TeX-auto-generate-global and TeX-auto-global.

[Hongyi Zhao]

On Sun, Jul 4, 2021 at 3:42 PM Ikumi Keita <ikumikeita@jcom.home.ne.jp> wrote:
>
> Hi Hongyi,
>
> >>>>> Hongyi Zhao <hongyi.zhao@gmail.com> writes:
> > According to my understanding, the `TeX-auto-global' variable setting
> > is intending to set the file's store location of the comprehensive
> > macro and variable hint lisp files, and the command
> > `TeX-auto-generate-global' is for generating the comprehensive macro
> > and variable hint lisp files.
>
> Right. See https://www.gnu.org/software/auctex/manual/auctex/Customizing.html
> .
>
> > But based on my later tries, it seems that there is no need to run the
> > above command at all, and auctex already can give wonderful and rather
> > extensive completion results with its initial configuration.
>
> As described in the above documentation, AUCTeX has built-in support for
> many major packages. But it doesn't offer support for *ALL* LaTeX
> packages.
> Running `TeX-auto-generate-global' analyses all packages installed on
> your TEXMFSYS tree at that time and generates support files which give
> completions etc. So you can obtain completions for packages which
> AUCTeX doesn't support by default.
>
> But beware that `TeX-auto-generate-global' is not so smart so that it
> sometimes introduces unexpected side effects.[1]

If I want to enable `TeX-auto-generate-global' and minimize the
probability of adverse effects, what's the suggested best practice?

>
> Regards,
> Ikumi Keita
>
> [1] https://lists.gnu.org/r/auctex/2021-01/msg00037.html

HY
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