[Tex/LaTex] AUCTeX View and Compile commands in Emacs 24.4

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With Emacs 24.3 on Mac OS X, I have used the method described in the answer by CodeKingPlusPlus at
Emacs AUCTeX View command
to use C-c C-v to open compiled latex PDFs using Preview.app.

After switching to Emacs 24.4 (but using the same AUCTeX version and .emacs file) it is not working anymore. For C-c C-v now I get the error "No appropriate .dvi file could be found". I thought maybe I need to do M-x customize-variable again to set the variable TeX-command-list, but this variable doesn't exists anymore.

C-c C-v is bound to the command tex-view, which, by definition attempts to open a .dvi file. The command invoked seems to be described by the variable tex-dvi-view-command, but changing that to open -a Preview *.pdf or something similar doesn't help anything. So this may be only for .dvi files, but I don't see any other command for .pdfs.

C-c C-c is also working strangely. In 24.3 it offered a command (usually Compile or View) depending on whether the .tex file needed compilation. Now it always offers \doc-view, and any time I want to compile, I need to enter pd+Space+Enter to run pdflatex.

Any help with getting Preview to open and making compiling easier would be much appreciated.

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Having just made the same update to Emacs 24.4, I had similar symptoms. The view prompts are coming from the built in tex mode, not AuCTeX. Looking at the loading messages, there is a report that tex-site could not be found.

The solution for me was to remove auctex and reinstall it. I had auctex installed via the package system and used that for these operations. After this, restarting emacs and loading a tex file now loads AuCTeX (most visible by the presence of a Command menu) and viewing and compiling now work as they should.

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I got lucky and found a solution!

Follow these steps

M-x customize-variable
Emacs gives: Customize variable: Enter: TeX-command-list
Search for View (enter C-s and then type `View)
Emacs will take you to the view command where you can enter text.

It will look something like this (after Command there will be a place for text entry):

[INS] [DEL] Name: View                                                                                 
            Command: open -a Preview.app %s.pdf                                                        
            How: [Value Menu] TeX-run-command                                                          
            Create a process for NAME using COMMAND to process FILE. More                              
            Prompt: [Toggle]  on (non-nil)                                                             
            Modes: [Value Menu] All                                                                    
            Menu elements:                                                                             
            [INS] [DEL] Lisp expression: :help                                                         
            [INS] [DEL] Lisp expression: "Run Text viewer"

Change the text after Command: to whatever you need. This will automatically change your ~/.emacs file.

[Tex/LaTex] AUCTeX/Emacs not recognizing correct commands automatically

Nothing is wrong with your init file. You need to configure AucTeX with the option ./configure <tab>--with-emacs, then just make and sudo make install.

Of course, in a perfect world emacs ought to be compiled by the user. But either way, this is assuming that your emacs is working as it should.

As a side note, you can always (add-to-list 'load-path "~/path/to/auctex-11.87/"), verify it with C-x C-e.

The easiest way to test it out, since we are dealing with bib files, is to make a small change in the bib file, say in one of the fields of either the author, or in the title of a miscellaneous item, or article, or book or whatever, and remember to save this bib file. Then go to your tex file and invoke C-c C-c again. It should return Command: (default BibTeX).

If it does not return the above Command: (default BibTeX) immediately, then, either your emacs was not compiled as it should have been compiled, or AucTeX needs to be compiled by one of the other options as outlined in http://www.gnu.org/software/auctex/manual/auctex.html#Installation .

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