Balloon help and AUCTeX

[David Kastrup]

"Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen at xemacs.org> writes:

> With 4.75 out of 5 bugs closed, you can reenable balloon-help, and
> we can start on the process of making it work more than merely
> "acceptably well" for AUCTeX.
>
> How about that, David?

AUCTeX obeys the current setting of XEmacs.  Enable it by default
within XEmacs, and you'll have preview-latex users at least as a test
audience.  And the problem reports will wind up at your own door.
First-hand reports instead of year-old hearsay.

Enabling it in AUCTeX by default will, even if I take your word as
gospel, cause trouble for all users with older versions, presumably
also XEmacs 21.4.  It would be nonsensical to subject people to
balloon-help in older XEmacs versions for which you rightly can
decline responsibility, having already fixed them.

In short: it's your own call to make.  preview-latex puts all the
requisite extent properties on the stuff already.  No further action
is required than
(balloon-help-mode 1)
to use them.

-- 
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum