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5.5.2 Automatic Customization for a User

You should specify where you store your private TeX macros, so AUCTeX can extract their information. The extracted information will go to the directories listed in TeX-auto-private

Use M-x TeX-auto-generate <RET> to extract the information.

user option TeX-macro-private​

Directories where you store your personal TeX macros. The value defaults to the directories listed in the ‘TEXINPUTS’ and ‘BIBINPUTS’ environment variables or to the respective directories in $TEXMFHOME if no results can be obtained from the environment variables.

user option TeX-auto-private​

List of directories containing automatically generated AUCTeX style files. These correspond to the personal TeX macros.

command TeX-auto-generate* TEX AUTO*​

(M-x TeX-auto-generate <RET>) Generate style hook for TEX and store it in AUTO. If TEX is a directory, generate style hooks for all files in the directory.

user option TeX-style-private​

List of directories containing hand generated AUCTeX style files. These correspond to the personal TeX macros.