From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Overlay mechanic improvements Date: Mon, 06 Oct 2014 15:14:42 -0400 Message-ID: References: <871tr6qup8.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <87ppepne6d.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <87mw9smxaz.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <87sijii1cd.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <87vbo7j7yy.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <87d2adk63p.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1412622917 6614 80.91.229.3 (6 Oct 2014 19:15:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2014 19:15:17 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: David Kastrup Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Oct 06 21:15:13 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XbDkW-0006sH-EV for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 06 Oct 2014 21:15:12 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:53893 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XbDkV-0006rG-Uf for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 06 Oct 2014 15:15:11 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:58340) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XbDk4-0006mV-DV for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 06 Oct 2014 15:14:45 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XbDk3-0000zl-BT for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 06 Oct 2014 15:14:44 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:49678) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XbDk3-0000zf-8E for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 06 Oct 2014 15:14:43 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XbDk2-0000wU-Ev; Mon, 06 Oct 2014 15:14:42 -0400 In-reply-to: <87d2adk63p.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (message from David Kastrup on Tue, 30 Sep 2014 07:52:26 +0200) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:175042 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] Thanks for the explanation. Now I understand, more or less. If you write, say, word_text instead of word\_text (throwing LaTeX into inadvertant math mode), the resulting nuisance overlay will need to get manually removed (with keyboard sequence or mouse click) after correcting the syntax error since no image will reappear in that area after the correction. If you regenerate that region, and it makes no image, can't that delete the overlay automatically? preview-latex does an excellent job, but much of its code is not at all related to the AUCTeX user interface or the LaTeX input language, and yet it will work for nothing but the AUCTeX user interface and the LaTeX input language. What is the obstacle to supporting other interfaces? Would preview-latex be of any use with Texinfo? Maybe not, since generally there are few equations in Texinfo. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation 51 Franklin St Boston MA 02110 USA www.fsf.org www.gnu.org Skype: No way! That's nonfree (freedom-denying) software. Use Ekiga or an ordinary phone call.