Paul Nelson <ultr...@gmail.com> writes: > This patch allows preview.el to work in LaTeX-mode non-file buffers > for which TeX-master has been set to the name of a valid tex file. > > This patch might appear to be adding a new feature, but if I > understand correctly, it's really fixing an ancient bug. From what I > can tell, preview.el was carefully designed to support non-file > buffers, but this support was broken unintentionally in the commit > 3651776f5a57283f97af54a53a6106519bef41b0. > > In more detail, when preview-region is called on a non-file buffer, > the file name "<none>" is passed along to TeX-region-create. Since > that commit, the file name is subsequently relativized to the master > file, even when it is "<none>". As a result, in > preview-parse-messages, the checks (string= file "<none>") fail in > cases where they should succeed. This patch makes it so that > TeX-region-create only relativizes the file name when it is not equal > to "<none>", so that the checks in question succeed, as was intended. > > As motivation, I have been using something equivalent to this patch > for a while, and have found it very useful in, e.g., indirect org-mode > source blocks.
Paul, thanks for the patch, the motivation and the change sound reasonable to me. @David and Keita: WDYT, any comments? Best, Arash _______________________________________________ bug-auctex mailing list bug-auctex@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-auctex
