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by BlobberSnobber 678 days ago
Unrelated comment: I love the Tex in your code comments, and I wish that auto-previewing it was a feature of IDEs (especially emacs)
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karthink 678 days ago
Emacs can do that quite easily[1]. But this code is not merged into the trunk yet, it should be some time this year.

[1]: https://share.karthinks.com/prog-preview-3.mp4

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BlobberSnobber 676 days ago
That's exactly what I had in mind, is it just a modified org-latex-preview that works anywhere?
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dunham 678 days ago
It's not quite a preview, but back in the 90's there was something called sym-lock.el that would render TeX escape sequences as the corresponding symbol. I have no idea if it still works, but Google points me here:

  https://github.com/sid137/emacs/blob/master/sym-lock.el
(I used it with xemacs at the time, because it had more flexible font handling.)
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