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5.5.3 Automatic Customization for a Directory

AUCTeX can update the style information about a file each time you save it, and it will do this if the directory TeX-auto-local exists. TeX-auto-local is by default set to ‘"auto"’, so simply creating an ‘auto’ directory will enable automatic saving of style information.

The advantage of doing this is that macros, labels, etc. defined in any file in a multifile document will be known in all the files in the document. The disadvantage is that saving will be slower. To disable, set TeX-auto-local to nil.

user option TeX-style-local​

Directory containing hand generated TeX information.

These correspond to TeX macros found in the current directory.

user option TeX-auto-local​

Directory containing automatically generated TeX information.

These correspond to TeX macros found in the current directory.