Re: integrating PDFLaTeX with emacs?

[Olive <olive.lin@versateladsl.be>]

Elvis Chen wrote:
> hi all,
> 
> sorry for what may be a trivial question, but please help if it is trivial
> nonetheless :)
> 
> I'm trying to get PDFLaTeX to play nicely with emacs.  I'm using Linux
> Suse 9.1 with Emacs-21.3.  I would like to edit my ~/.gnu-emacs-custom
> such that I can rebind the keys:
> 
> Ctrl-c Ctrl-f to "pdflatex" my .tex file, and
> Ctrl-c Ctrl-v to launch xpdf to view the resulting .pdf file
> 
> can someone give me a hint please?
> 
> From emacsWiki I have found what may work:
> (setq tex-command "pdftex")
> (defun tex-view ()
>     (interactive)
>     (tex-send-command "xpdf" (tex-append tex-print-file ".pdf")))
> 
> but it doesn't.  my key-binding were still tied to latex/xdvi
> 
> tia,
> 
> ECC
> 

(set-variable (quote latex-run-command) "pdflatex")
(set-variable (quote tex-dvi-view-command) "xpdf")

You can also do this interactively by M-x customize-variable 
latex-run-command and the same for tex-dvi-view-command

This works for the standard mode of emacs. auctex has that functionality 
built-in. Some people in this list find unbelievable to not use auctex. 
I strongly disagree with this. Some people, as me, prefer to use the 
standard TeX mode.

Olive