Using minted (source code LaTeX package) with emacs/auctex

Question

As is explained in here, I find minted package is pretty cool for source code listing.

My question is how to use minted package with AucTeX/emacs? For command line I ca

Answer 1

I can only answer question 3:

What is the '-shell-escape' for?

minted uses a third-party application, pygmentize, to process the source code. LaTeX usually doesn’t allow calling other applications for security reasons (a rogue package could otherwise call aribtrary code). To explicitly enable calling external applications, you need to enable this so-called escape to the shell – which, on most LaTeX installations, is done via the -shell-escape switch.