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auctex: Customization
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5.5 Automatic Customization
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Since AUCTeX is so highly customizable, it makes sense that it is able
to customize itself. The automatic customization consists of scanning
TeX files and extracting symbols, environments, and things like that.
The automatic customization is done on three different levels. The
global level is the level shared by all users at your site, and consists
of scanning the standard TeX style files, and any extra styles added
locally for all users on the site. The private level deals with those
style files you have written for your own use, and use in different
documents. You may have a '~/lib/TeX/' directory where you store useful
style files for your own use. The local level is for a specific
directory, and deals with writing customization for the files for your
normal TeX documents.
If compared with the environment variable 'TEXINPUTS', the global
level corresponds to the directories built into TeX. The private level
corresponds to the directories you add yourself, except for '.', which
is the local level.
· Automatic Global Automatic Customization for the Site
· Automatic Private Automatic Customization for a User
· Automatic Local Automatic Customization for a Directory
By default AUCTeX will search for customization files in all the
global, private, and local style directories, but you can also set the
path directly. This is useful if you for example want to add another
person's style hooks to your path. Please note that all matching files
found in 'TeX-style-path' are loaded, and all hooks defined in the files
will be executed.
-- User Option: TeX-style-path
List of directories to search for AUCTeX style files.
By default, when AUCTeX searches a directory for files, it will
recursively search through subdirectories.
-- User Option: TeX-file-recurse
Whether to search TeX directories recursively: nil means do not
recurse, a positive integer means go that far deep in the directory
hierarchy, t means recurse indefinitely.
By default, AUCTeX will ignore files named '.', '..', 'SCCS', 'RCS',
and 'CVS'.
-- User Option: TeX-ignore-file
Regular expression matching file names to ignore.
These files or directories will not be considered when searching
for TeX files in a directory.