Variable: tex-directory

tex-directory is a customizable variable defined in tex-mode.el.gz.

Value

"."

Documentation

Directory in which temporary files are written.

You can make this /tmp if your TEXINPUTS has no relative directories in it and you don't try to apply M-x tex-region (tex-region) or M-x tex-buffer (tex-buffer) when there are
\input commands with relative directories.

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Source Code

;; Defined in /usr/src/emacs/lisp/textmodes/tex-mode.el.gz
;;;###autoload
(defcustom tex-directory (purecopy ".")
  "Directory in which temporary files are written.
You can make this `/tmp' if your TEXINPUTS has no relative directories in it
and you don't try to apply \\[tex-region] or \\[tex-buffer] when there are
`\\input' commands with relative directories."
  :type 'directory
  :group 'tex-file)