Haines Brown <haines@histomat.net> writes:

> I would like to specify the TeX engine with the emacs command line, such
> as with C-c C-c latex and C-c C-c xelatex, rather than having it only
> call whichever TeX-engine is specified in AUCTeX configuration or in
> .emacs init file. At present I can only switch between processing LaTeX
> and XeLaTeX files by inserting or commenting a line in .emacs (setq
> TeX-engine 'xetex) and reload emacs.

You can do it by creating a custom command, by adding entries to
TeX-command-list.  Then you can change the command to call when
using C-c C-c.

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Carl Lei (XeCycle)
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