Re: [AUCTeX] preview-latex on Fedora Core 4

[Ralf Angeli]

* David Kastrup (2006-03-14) writes:

> Ralf Angeli <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> * Alejandro Jakubi (2006-03-14) writes:
>>
>>> I have to say that I use mainly Windows and I am not very fond of Emacs, 
>>
>> Why?
>
> Can you drag from Emacs with a mouse? Or bind his Lisp in lexical
> scope? Can you put Truetype onto his display?  Or grasp his menus with
> Alt-F or F10?  Will he make many supplications to you? Will he speak
> soft words to you?  Will he make a covenant with you to take him for
> your servant forever?  Will you play with him as with a Word?  Or will
> you put him on a leash for your maidens?  Will traders bargain over
> him? Will they divide him up among the merchants?  Can you fill his
> buffers with Hebrew? Or customize his key bindings?  Lay your hand
> upon him!  Remember your battle with him; you will not do such again!
> Behold, the hope is disappointed; one is cast down even at the sight
> of him!

Got up with your romantically pessimistic foot today?

>> Extraction of image material is done by the `preview' LaTeX package.
>> The editor is then free to do what it wants with this output.
>
> It might need a little coaxing to do that.

Glancing at the code of preview-latex I'd prefer the term "miracle".

-- 
Ralf