Re: On the usage and function of TeX-auto-generate-global and TeX-auto-global.

[Ikumi Keita]

>>>>> Hongyi Zhao <hongyi.zhao@gmail.com> writes:
>> Running `TeX-auto-generate-global' analyses all packages installed on
>> your TEXMFSYS tree at that time and generates support files which give
>> completions etc. So you can obtain completions for packages which
>> AUCTeX doesn't support by default.
>> 
>> But beware that `TeX-auto-generate-global' is not so smart so that it
>> sometimes introduces unexpected side effects.[1]

> If I want to enable `TeX-auto-generate-global' and minimize the
> probability of adverse effects, what's the suggested best practice?

Unfortunately, there's no such best practice as far as I can see. You
have to modify the generated elisp files by hand each time when you find
some shortcomings.

Regards,
Ikumi Keita