Re: [Bug-AUCTeX] 11.82; image inclusion prevents following previews from being displayed

[Ralf Angeli]

* David Kastrup (2006-01-14) writes:

> Ralf Angeli <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> That's how I understood your change in preview.el.  Doesn't it prevent
>> preview-latex from choking on "(PNG copy)"?  (As I've mentioned
>> before, I cannot check it.)
>
> No, it prevents preview-latex from choking on "(PNG copy)>" by letting
> it misunderstand "(PNG " and letting it recover by misunderstanding
> "copy)>" again.

Now the penny dropped.  Talking about slow uptake ...

> The problem is what kind of opening parens and what kind of closing
> parens we are going to take as gospel.  I don't see a sane way around
> accepting "(PNG ", so I have to accept ")>" as well given that we have
> to deal with the [expletive deleted] new output ideas from PDFTeX.  It
> is not like AUCTeX is the only TeX shell with that problem, so I
> consider this a bit of an inconsideration on part of the PDFTeX
> developers.

Hm, what about skipping over content in square brackets?  That means
as soon as an opening square bracket is encountered during parsing the
only next token to be looked for is its closing bracket.

>> Ah, now I got it.  Besides the stick you may hand me a pair of
>> scissors for shortening my long line.  (You need me not to say that
>> the outprint "a long line to have" not in English exists.)
>
> I am afraid that this play on German will be incomprehensible to most
> readers of this group.  Including myself, by the way.

Man, I gotta work on my humor.

-- 
Ralf