Re: Please document the caching and its user options

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net>
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, n142857@gmail.com, emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
> Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2024 10:35:39 +0000
> 
> If you do not use latex-preview or other features that cache their
> results, org-persist should not create any files or directories.
> (It currently does create gc-lock.eld, but I will fix this)
> 
> However, if you do use it, Org mode has no option to disable creating
> cache.  In fact, Org mode never had such an option. For example,
> `org-preview-latex-image-directory' is a part of Org mode since at least
> Org 9.0, and it was never an option to disable it. org-persist did not
> introduce anything drastically new in this regard.
> 
> So, this discussion and people insisting on completely disabling the
> cache is a bit strange to me. I suspect that the problem may be not the
> cache itself, but either (1) that it is created when cache features are
> not really used; (2) that it is created in .emacs.d for some users.

Let me clarify.  In the scenario in which I found out about Org
caching, I didn't use latex-preview, not at all.  All I did was visit
the org.org file that we have now on the master branch, and look
around for a while (specifically, I looked for the constructs that
produce the Texinfo @dircategory and @direntry directives).  Perhaps
the caching I saw was a different kind of caching, I don't know (hence
the request to document that, and if there's more than one kind of
caching, I hope they will all be documented), but evidently the
caching by Org happens (by default!) even if the user doesn't come
anywhere near latex-preview.