Hi Tassilo,

>>>>> Tassilo Horn <tsdh@gnu.org> writes:
> I've lost track in this discussion but is the plan to have many auto/
> directories in the directories where the included tex files reside or do
> you want to resemble the path to included files below the single auto/
> directory next to the master document?

My idea is to have a new user option to choose one from those two plans.
The attached patch implements this idea. The current behavior is the
latter one.

> If it's the former, there could be the possibility that the current user
> has no write permissions everywhere.  It could also be annoying in cases
> where the included files reside on a network share or a VCS checkout
> which will become dirty due to AUCTeX writing there.

Indeed.

Best,
Ikumi Keita
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