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Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

>> 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

Worked like a charm, thank you Stefan!