Evil Boris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > David Kastrup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Aha! I had not realized (having not looked at the code, ever) that > a preview is attached to the entire math mode string (a portion of > the buffer, more precisely) and is kept around even if the string is > modified. Would it be too difficult to simply catch modifications > of the string and nuke the preview? I would find this a more > logical behavior, as a user.
It has the disadvantage that one of the most common ways of working with previews is doing small edits and regenerating the preview. >>> A secondary issue is that there are those slightly annoying pictures >>> attached to "opened" math expressions --- in this case the second >>> one, that was attached to $y$ refuses to go away, even though it >>> looks to me like I have have deleted character (namely the $ in >>> front of "y") to which it seems to be attached. >> >> Well, you can use C-c C-p C-c C-p to remove the preview, or you can >> use mouse-3 on the "annoying picture" to remove it. > > Sorry, I meant the icon that lives at the beginning of the unfolded > previewed math expression. Forgot the appropriate term (can never > remember the right lingo for the right context, sorry...). I was aware of that. > I just was pointing out that in my opinion a natural behavior from a > users point of view would be for the icon to disappear once one > (C-d)s over the characters surrounding the place where it appears to > be located in the buffer. I am not sure that crafting a consistent behavior on that premise would be easy. > Thanks for quick response. I am just playing with preview, trying > to see if it is useful to me---worked for years w/o previewing > except in reading/proofreading stage, but seem to be constantly > invoking an external previewer (via AUCTeX)... Anything that slows > things down too much or requires too much interaction to distract me > from editing the manuscript is not worth it, for me. Well, if you decide against previews: the newer AUCTeX versions support source specials quite well, and those make for a more convenient coupling of previewer and editor. Still, I like the previews much better. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum _______________________________________________ bug-auctex mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-auctex
