Apart from these special features, AUCTeX provides a large range of handy Emacs macros, which in several different ways can help you write your documents fast and painlessly.ĪUCTeX’s home page can be found at and there is a summary project page on Freshmeat at. It has a special outline feature, which can greatly help you ‘getting an overview’ of a document.
AUCTeX automatically indents your ‘LaTeX-source’, not only as you write it – you can also let it indent and format an entire document.
One component of AUCTeX that LaTeX users will find attractive is preview-latex, a combination of folding and in-source previewing that provides true “What You See Is What You Get” experience in your sourcebuffer, while letting you retain full control.
This will even work when the document is spread over several files.
AUCTeX lets you browse through the errors TeX reported, while it moves the TextCursor directly to the reported error, and displays some documentation for that particular error. It lets you process your source files by running TeX and related tools (such as output filters, post processors for generating indices and bibliographies, and viewers) from inside Emacs. From the introduction in the AUCTeX manual: AUCTeX is a comprehensive customizable integrated environment for writing input files for TeX/LaTeX/ConTeXt/Texinfo using Emacs or XEmacs.