[AUCTeX-devel] Re: [AUCTeX] feature request (preview-latex): previewing without master file, with a default preamble

[Lukasz Stafiniak]

(I've switched to auctex-devel.)

On 1/31/07, David Kastrup <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hey, I never got this to run properly (but I didn't try very hard).
> So if you get all the details you remember together, maybe we can make
> it easier for the next person to try something like that.
>
> In particular, it would be interesting to know all the dead ends you
> explored.  While it is fine if there is a way that makes it work, it
> might even be nicer if some "obvious" ways (those that you tried
> first) can be made to work, too.
It is simple in the end, as you said. After the buffer is created, set
`TeX-master' to a file in home directory, set `TeX-header-end' and
`TeX-trailer-start' to their default values.

With a `TeX-master' out of place, `preview-parse-messages' doesn't
recognise that some file is "<none>", because it is like
"../../<none>", that is, it's path is home relative to the path of the
preamble, and `preview-parse-messages' has hard-coded check against
"<none>".