Re: Automatic Compiling

[Ulrich Dirr]

David Kastrup wrote:
> "Ulrich Dirr" <ud@art-satz.de> writes:
>
>> Hi.
>>
>> Is there an easy way how I can customize my PDFeLaTeX compile
>> cycles? I find it somewhat tedious to do all steps by hand.
>> (1) going to the compile menu and selecting PDFeLaTeX
>> (2) explictely confirm saving
>> (3) typing C-c C-c after successfully compiling
>> (4) typing 'View PDF'
>> (5) correcting the status line 'View PDF command: start
>> <file>.tex.pdf' to <file>.pdf
>>
>> (5) or how can I change the output behavior so that <file>.tex.pdf is
>> written (which I would prefer).
>>
>> I presume that this is nothing special as a lot of TeX afficionados
>> are using emacs and solved this already.
>
> The current developer version does this, you might want to try it
> using anonymous CVS.  Take a look at
> <URL:http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/auctex> for more info about
> getting at CVS.

Sorry, but I'm too stupid to understand the steps needed to get this
working. Is there a guide for dummies like me?