[Tex/LaTex] Using Nomenclature and emacs

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I'm learning how to \usepackage{nomencl}. So far so good.

I added the nomenclature compile option to the Emacs commands by editing my .emacs file, adding:

;; nomenclature for latex
(eval-after-load "tex"
  '(add-to-list 'TeX-command-list 
        '("Nomenclature" "makeindex %s.nlo -s nomencl.ist -o %s.nls" TeX-run-command nil t :help "Create nomenclature file")))

to it, this works: when I press C-c C-c (the shortcut for TeX-command-list I can use the Nomenclature command and the appropriate file is generated. I am unhappy though, for the following reason:

When I run BibTeX, and then press C-c C-c again, Emacs offers to run LaTeX (as appropriate, and if references have changed, it will offer Command: (default) LaTeX again, finally, it will offer Command (default) View, once the .log doesn't report references have changed. When I run Nomeclature, the next command offered by Emacs is Command (default) View, which is always inappropriate.

How can I tell Emacs to default to LaTeX as the next TeX-command-list command after running Nomenclature (same behavior as BibTeX)?

Best Answer

The easiest way (that I know of) is to use a function in the place of TeX-run-command like:

;; nomenclature for latex
(eval-after-load "tex"
  '(add-to-list 'TeX-command-list 
                '("Nomenclature" "makeindex %s.nlo -s nomencl.ist -o %s.nls"
                  (lambda (name command file)
                    (TeX-run-compile name command file)
                    (TeX-process-set-variable file 'TeX-command-next TeX-command-default))
                  nil t :help "Create nomenclature file")))

You should use TeX-command-default instead of "LaTeX" since that will automatically choose between latex or plain tex etc. Note that I used TeX-run-compile instead of TeX-run-command since for some reason I couldn't get that to work.

You can also create a custom "sentinel" function which will check for errors etc. See TeX-BibTeX-sentinel as an example. This would allow you to conditionally change what the next command is based on whether there are errors etc. I don't think you have to, or even want to, do that in this case, but you can if you need to in the future.

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