GNU bug report logs - #25002
Fail to preview latex in macOS emacs

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Message #14 received at 25002 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen <at> web.de>
To: David Kastrup <dak <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 25002 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Ruoquan Wang <13307110260 <at> fudan.edu.cn>
Subject: Re: bug#25002: Fail to preview latex in macOS emacs
Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2017 09:10:01 +0100

David Kastrup <dak <at> gnu.org> writes:

> That's a different bug (actually several different bugs).  Ghostscript
> has a history of changing its security-related behavior around, and
> every time preview-latex stops working until another patch is committed
> to AUCTeX.  Ghostscript 9.22 finally removed a security related feature
> (the .runandhide operator) without working secure replacement.  A fix
> has already been committed to upstream AUCTeX: this was comparatively
> straightforward to do since preview-latex had in a previous iteration
> already removed security-relevant reliance on this operator in order to
> stop this game, but it had still relied on its use elsewhere.

Ok, it was just a shot in the dark.  Thanks for explaining.


Michael.

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