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

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Package: auctex;

Reported by: Ruoquan Wang <13307110260 <at> fudan.edu.cn>

Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2016 16:29:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Tassilo Horn <tsdh <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Mosè Giordano <mose <at> gnu.org>
To: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen <at> web.de>
Cc: David Kastrup <dak <at> gnu.org>, 25002 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Ruoquan Wang <13307110260 <at> fudan.edu.cn>
Subject: bug#25002: Fail to preview latex in macOS emacs
Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2017 16:23:52 +0100

Hi Michael,

adding to what David said, we'll hopefully release a new stable
version of AUCTeX, which will include the fix, by next week.

Bye,
Mosè


2017-11-23 9:10 GMT+01:00 Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen <at> web.de>:
> 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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