update-auctex-elisp

\" modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published \" by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at \" your option) any later version. \" but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of \" MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General \" Public License for more details. \" with this manual page; if not, write to: The Free Software Foundation, \" Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA. \" Public License in "/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL".

NAME

update-auctex-elisp - update AUCTeX automatically generated TeX macros and LaTeX styles data.

SYNOPSIS

update-auctex-elisp [FLAVOR...]

DESCRIPTION

The update-auctex-elisp script updates the automatically generated TeX and LaTeX data used by AUCTeX and stored in /var/lib/auctex/.
It should be called after each major (La)TeX style files installation or upgrade.
If no arguments are specified, update-auctex-elisp caters to every supported Emacs flavor installed on the system; else it updates only the specified flavors, if they are installed.
On Debian GNU/Linux system update-auctex-elisp is called weekly by a cron(8) driven mechanism, to ensure up-to-date data.

BUGS

None known.

FILES

/var/lib/auctex/: the hierarchy containing the byte-compiled files.

SEE ALSO

emacs(1), tex(1), latex(1).

AUTHOR

Davide G. M. Salvetti <salve@debian.org>.