Re: How can I configure Emacs to use XeLaTeX without AUCTeX

[Stefan Monnier]

> The title says it all I hope, I'd like to configure Emacs to use XeLaTeX
> instead of pdfLaTeX, which is the default.

For the builtin latex-mode, you'd have to add an entry to
tex-compile-commands (assuming you're using tex-compile, aka C-c C-c).

E.g.

  (eval-after-load 'tex-mode
   '(add-to-list 'tex-compile-commands
                 '((concat "xelatex "
                           (if (< 0 (length tex-start-commands))
                               (shell-quote-argument tex-start-commands))
                           " %f")
                   t "%r.pdf")))


-- Stefan