Re: what are the commands on the menu

[David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>]

Olive <olive.lin@versateladsl.be> writes:

> David Kastrup wrote:
>> Olive <olive.lin@versateladsl.be> writes:
>> 
>>>I used to use the standard TeX mode but D. Kastrup have convinced me
>>>that auctex is better.
>> Actually, it was not really my intent to turn you from the default
>> tex-mode.el as long as it was an informed decision.
>> 
>>>My principal trouble about it is that I can't figure out on what
>>>functions the command on the menu are bound.  I would like to define
>>>"\C-c\C-f" to be bound to the LaTeX command I see in the menu (to
>>>emulate the key in the stand. mode).
>> This can be called a deficiency of AUCTeX, so it would probably be
>> best discussed on auctex-devel at gnu.org.
>> 
>>>But if a do a describe-key on this item; I get something like
>>>menu-function-<some-number>; which I think is dynamically generated
>>>(?)
>> Yes, more or less.
>> You probably want something like
>>   (TeX-command "LaTeX" 'TeX-master-file 0)
>
> I had already tried this (after having looked in the source code;
> trying to guess how thing are done); but then the files are not
> saved if there are been modified (I have configured auctex to save
> all the modified files). I have not tried to remake the LaTeX
> command by trying to save the files myself since this command
> already exists and I tought that all I have to do is to "locate it".

No such command exists yet.  This is done in the course of
TeX-command-query which is not consulted here.  You need to do
something like

  (TeX-save-document (TeX-master-file))

yourself.  Again: this is rather a topic for the developer list of
AUCTeX than for this group.

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum