Customizing Texmaker
I Use Latex a Lot but I Find Quite Obnoxious All the Crappy Files It Leaves Behind When You Compile: .Aux, .Log. .. Fortunately Texmaker Has the Option "Clean"...
I use LaTeX a lot but I find quite obnoxious all the crappy files it leaves behind when you compile: .aux, .log...
Fortunately TeXMaker has the option "clean" that deletes all of these.
However, I don't like having to remember to click on it every time I'm going to close a document, ie I'd like a button that both closes a document and cleans all that stuff.
Any hint as how to do it? I suppose if I knew how to access the program code I'd be able to do it as I'd just have to put together two options that already exist.
Thanks
2 Answers
You can go to the menu:
Options → Configure → QuickBuild → User and define there (in User) the actions that you want by specifying the command pipeline.
For example, I have the following pipeline:
latex -interaction=nonstopmode %.tex | bibtex %.aux | bibtex %.aux | bibtex %.aux |
latex -interaction=nonstopmode %.tex | latex -interaction=nonstopmode %.tex |
dvipdf %.dvi | rm %.aux %.bbl %.blg %.dvi %.log %.out %.toc
Note that at the end of the pipe, I removed files specifying them by their extension (.toc, .aux, etc)
Hope it helps.
Finally, what worked best for me was to compile TexMaker from source merging the methods to clean and to close. So any time I close a file the auxiliary files are removed.
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