Re: hide comments using preview-latex

[Fabian Braennstroem <f.braennstroem@gmx.de>]

Hi David,

* David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> wrote:
> Fabian Braennstroem <f.braennstroem@gmx.de> writes:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am using preview-latex (auctex version 11.83) with an
>> 'old' emacs 21.3.1 on a scientific linux (redhat clone). It
>> works pretty nice, but I wonder, if there is a setting to
>> translate commented lines to an e.g. empty image!? Maybe, it
>> is even possible to 'hide'/translate them independent of the
>> actual document. Right now, I use a small function which
>> hides these lines, but they are not 'folded' and auctex
>> folding mode does not have a special 'comment' option.
>> Does there exist such a nice function/option in
>> preview-latex? Would be nice!
>
> That would be an awful lot of comments!  Anyway, preview-latex hides
> LaTeX constructs, attaching itself to macros, and comments are not
> actual LaTeX constructs.  So if at all, one would need to convince
> syntax highlighting and/or TeX-fold-mode to cater for folding
> comments.

Actually I have to many comments in most of my latex files
until I get close to the end ... it is a kind of collecting
ideas, but maybe I should change my working habit, if
'preview' is not able to handle it. I will take a look at
the other methods to hide the comments, thanks!

Greetings!
 Fabian