The macros defined by the commath package are not accessible with TeX-insert-macro. The package is included via \usepackgage and compilation of a file with commath works. The commath macros are not in TeX-symbol-list. Even though debug mode is enabled, no error is thrown. Expected behavior: C-c od should produce \od{}{} Actual behavior: C-C od produces: \od Reproducible: always Minimal sample: \documentclass{article} \usepackage{commath} \begin{document} \begin{equation} \od{f}{x} \end{equation} \end{document} Emacs : GNU Emacs 24.5.1 (x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.18.9) of 2016-04-11 on buildvm-25.phx2.fedoraproject.org Package: 11.89 current state: ============== (setq AUCTeX-date "2015-11-13" window-system 'x LaTeX-version "2e" TeX-style-path '("/var/auctex" "/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/auctex/style" "/home/ash1125/.emacs.d/auctex/auto" "/home/ash1125/.emacs.d/auctex/style" "auto" "style") TeX-auto-save nil TeX-parse-self nil TeX-master t TeX-command-list '(("TeX" "%(PDF)%(tex) %(file-line-error) %(extraopts) %`%S%(PDFout)%(mode)%' %t" TeX-run-TeX nil (plain-tex-mode ams-tex-mode texinfo-mode) :help "Run plain TeX") ("LaTeX" "%`%l%(mode)%' %t" TeX-run-TeX nil (latex-mode doctex-mode) :help "Run LaTeX") ("Makeinfo" "makeinfo %(extraopts) %t" TeX-run-compile nil (texinfo-mode) :help "Run Makeinfo with Info output") ("Makeinfo HTML" "makeinfo %(extraopts) --html %t" TeX-run-compile nil (texinfo-mode) :help "Run Makeinfo with HTML output") ("AmSTeX" "amstex %(PDFout) %(extraopts) %`%S%(mode)%' %t" TeX-run-TeX nil (ams-tex-mode) :help "Run AMSTeX") ("ConTeXt" "%(cntxcom) --once --texutil %(extraopts) %(execopts)%t" TeX-run-TeX nil (context-mode) :help "Run ConTeXt once") ("ConTeXt Full" "%(cntxcom) %(extraopts) %(execopts)%t" TeX-run-TeX nil (context-mode) :help "Run ConTeXt until completion") ("BibTeX" "bibtex %s" TeX-run-BibTeX nil t :help "Run BibTeX") ("Biber" "biber %s" TeX-run-Biber nil t :help "Run Biber") ("View" "%V" TeX-run-discard-or-function t t :help "Run Viewer") ("Print" "%p" TeX-run-command t t :help "Print the file") ("Queue" "%q" TeX-run-background nil t :help "View the printer queue" :visible TeX-queue-command) ("File" "%(o?)dvips %d -o %f " TeX-run-dvips t t :help "Generate PostScript file") ("Dvips" "%(o?)dvips %d -o %f " TeX-run-dvips nil t :help "Convert DVI file to PostScript") ("Dvipdfmx" "dvipdfmx %d" TeX-run-dvipdfmx nil t :help "Convert DVI file to PDF with dvipdfmx") ("Ps2pdf" "ps2pdf %f" TeX-run-ps2pdf nil t :help "Convert PostScript file to PDF") ("Index" "makeindex %s" TeX-run-index nil t :help "Run makeindex to create index file") ("Xindy" "texindy %s" TeX-run-command nil t :help "Run xindy to create index file") ("Check" "lacheck %s" TeX-run-compile nil (latex-mode) :help "Check LaTeX file for correctness") ("ChkTeX" "chktex -v6 %s" TeX-run-compile nil (latex-mode) :help "Check LaTeX file for common mistakes") ("Spell" "(TeX-ispell-document \"\")" TeX-run-function nil t :help "Spell-check the document") ("Clean" "TeX-clean" TeX-run-function nil t :help "Delete generated intermediate files") ("Clean All" "(TeX-clean t)" TeX-run-function nil t :help "Delete generated intermediate and output files") ("Other" "" TeX-run-command t t :help "Run an arbitrary command") )