Re: [ Re: Problem with MS Windows-based Installation]

Ciaran Taylor <[email protected]> writes:

> By the way I'm also running preview-latex 0.9 on GNU Emacs 21.3.50.1
> (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600) of 2005-01-30 on NONIQPC which I qot from
> http://nqmacs.sourceforge.net/.  That's working well (since I
> realised a few things).  There have been a few crashes: I'm not sure
> whether to blame the CVS emacs, AUCTeX 11.55 or preview-latex 0.9.

Honest-to-God crashes are always to be blamed on CVS Emacs (or C
libraries it links with): Elisp provides a sandbox that should not let
applications like AUCTeX or preview-latex produce a crash, no matter
what they do.

Particularly relevant for preview-latex would be

2005-03-02  Kim F. Storm  <[email protected]>

	* dispextern.h (XASSERTS): Define to 0 if not already defined.
	(xassert) [!XASSERTS]: Define dummy version.

[...]

2005-02-02  Miles Bader  <[email protected]>

	* dispextern.h (xassert): Enable unconditionally.

Any CVS Emacs built straight from HEAD from between those two dates is
definitely a particularly bad idea to use with preview-latex, or
overtall lines in general.

Now this would (by a hair's line) not apply to the Emacs you used, so
it might be some other bug.  There are still some of those being fixed
these days, so it might help checking out the next nqmacs when it
becomes available (but no build from before 2005-03-02).

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