latexmk and auctex

Compiling LaTeX is a pain. LaTeXmk is a Perl script (eww) which iterates compilations, including of the bibliography, until complete.

auctex-latexmk integrates it with AucTeX‘s C-c C-c cycle. You need to add the following to .latexmkrc (the former to stop the compilation process hanging when you make a mistake, and the latter because emacs doesn’t know how to tell latexmk to compile pdfs).

$pdflatex = 'pdflatex --shell-escape -interaction=nonstopmode -file-line-error -synctex=1 %O %S';
$pdf_mode = 1;

Other useful commands include

• latexmk -C removes all automatically generated files
• latexmk -pvc continuously recompiles