Re: Several points of interest WRT AUC TeX and preview-latex
>>>> "Kai" == Kai Großjohann
<kai.grossjohann(a)uni-duisburg.de> writes:
Kai> "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen(a)xemacs.org> writes:
> According to David's description, preview-latex uses
autoconf
> for quite trivial PATH-chasing and checking for whether options
> are present that could just as easily be done in Lisp.
Kai> I've now scanned aclocal.m4, and that's indeed what he
Kai> appears to be doing. However, the file is 10k, so there is
Kai> some amount of work to be done in porting it all to Lisp.
Kai> (Even though parts of it are already in Lisp.)
Oh, I don't deny that it would be "some work" to port.
But _we're_ not likely to do it, because then we'd have another pile
of rapidly bitrotting code on our hands, whose author is decidedly
biased against cooperation with XEmacs. Better to spend the effort
updating AUC-TeX, IMO.
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