Hi Al, > I just made public an auctex preview package that I have been working on for > some time. It essentially shows the preview locally and temporarily in a > frame or as an 'after-string, similar to what Overleaf has been doing > recently. > > https://github.com/haji-ali/preview-point > > Any feedback/bug reports are appreciated.
I wasn't able to get it to work. I have dvisvgm installed. I tried with the standard config, with dvipng, etc. preview-point-buf-change is called, but no buffer frames appear. When I get the chance, I'll try starting from a naked config and see if it works then. My interest in this as an alternative to the usual preview approach is that when I edit beamer documents, I sometimes want to see whole frame environments (rather than individual formulas) previewed as a unit. It'll be nice if the package is flexible enough to allow that option. >From my POV, all of the fixes you mention regarding preview.el would be welcome. I have no immediate thoughts on most of them (they're not issues I encounter), but: > - `preview-place-preview` calls `preview-clearout` which deletes old > overlays and their associated files. But I think this creates an issue > when `preview-leave-open-previews-visible` is non-nil, where the same > file is used in the new overlay causing image display errors in some > cases. I haven't encountered this issue myself, but a couple people have told me that they experience display errors when using preview-leave-open-previews-visible with files in certain shared folders, so it might be worth thinking through if the issue you raise here could be related to that. Thanks, best, Paul
