I would like to use latexmk to compile my LaTeX documents in Emacs. Especially I need the Emacs functionality next-error
, which is typically called with C-x `, and jumps to the next LaTeX error in the document.
I would like to call latexmk
either using C-x compile
or the AUCTeX C-c C-c
.
First, I set latexmk
to use
$pdflatex = 'pdflatex -interaction=nonstopmode';
Option 1: C-x compile
I press C-x compile
and type latexmk -pdf foo
, which runs pdflatex
. But next-error
will not jump to the errors, even if the *compilation* buffer contains errors:
! Paragraph ended before \author was complete.
<to be read again>
\par
l.48
[...]
Compilation exited abnormally with code 12
How can I automatically jump to this error in line 48?
Note that this question of parsing the latex output has nothing to do with latexmk
directly. The same problem occurs when I just do C-x compile pdflatex -interaction=nonstopmode foo
.
Option 2: AUCTeX
How can I set AUCTeX to call latexmk -pdf
instead of pdflatex
on my .tex file? Of course, I want next-error
to work here too.
UPDATE: I started a bounty because if this worked it would be a great tool for many people. I consider the question answered if a solution is given that lets me easily compile my LaTeX document using latexmk
in Emacs and jump to the errors using next-error
(of course, the errors might be in included .tex files, not necessarily in the master file or the current buffer).
UPDATE: Thanks to Ivan (and Chris) for making AUCTeX+Latexmk work. In the meantime, I found that using Rubber to compile LaTeX is also an excellent choice. It will display error messages in the format used by gcc
and other compilers, so it naturally works with Emacs C-x compile
, e.g. C-x compile rubber --pdf foo
, and the error messages are parsed correctly.