Re: [AUCTeX-devel] Default settings

[Uwe Brauer]

>> "Mos" == Mos  <Mos> writes:

Hi to both
   > 2014-03-16 18:06 GMT+01:00 Florêncio Neves <address@hidden>:
   >> There are quite a few settings in AUCTeX that one needs to discover
   >> and customize before getting a reasonable environment.

   > I agree.

   >> I think the

   > I  definitely second enabling `TeX-PDF-mode', I believe few people
   > still use DVI nowadays.  

I beg to differ. Although I use pdf mode most of the time, inverse
search does not work well in older settings (Kubuntu 10.04 with an old
xpdf, really did not work that well) so for that purpose I directly
compile to dvi. The same holds for source specials: they result in
slightly different dvi(pdf) and that is why I would turn it off per
default.


  Regarding forward/inverse

   > search, Kile, Texmaker, TeXstudio, and TeXworks (these are the editors
   > I have installed) all enable it by default, so why not?  RefTeX is
   > builtin in GNU Emacs but I don't know what's the situation in XEmacs.


Reftex is in the Xemacs package system I bit outdated but it works, so
turning it on per default is a good idea.

   >> Also, dollar signs should automatically become electric if
   >> `electric-pair-mode' is active (I think currently one has set
   >> TeX-electric-math manually).

   > I like electricity, but I have no strong opinion here.

I use Carsten Dominik cdlatex package (still very recommendable) which
does this in a nice way, so I think electricity should no be on per default.

   > Actually I've never set `TeX-master' to `dwim' because it isn't
   > documented in the manual.

Nor do I. 


What's about 

(setq TeX-show-compilation t)

This is a feature I can live without.


Uwe Brauer

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